The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 96
In the boat a great store of food was packed—deer meat, smoked herring, cakes of barley, toothsome victuals enough for many days.
What happens: pack, smoke · To what, where: great store, boat
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 boat | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boat | det |
| 3 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 packed | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 store | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 store | amod |
| 6 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 packed | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 food | case |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 store | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 packed | aux:pass |
| 10 | packed | pack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 meat | punct |
| 12 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 meat | compound |
| 13 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 packed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 herring | punct |
| 15 | smoked | smoke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 herring | amod |
| 16 | herring | herring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 meat | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cakes | punct |
| 18 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 meat | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 barley | case |
| 20 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cakes | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 victuals | punct |
| 22 | toothsome | toothsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 victuals | amod |
| 23 | victuals | victual | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 meat | conj |
| 24 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 10 packed | advmod |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 days | case |
| 26 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 days | amod |
| 27 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 packed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 packed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pack | past · passive | a great store of food | the boat | day | deer meat and smoked herring and cakes of barley and toothsome victuals obl; enough property | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in boat=Destination | ||
| 2 | smoke | participle | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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