The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 100
On every clear day, sunbeams have danced among my leaves.
What happens: dance · To what, where: sunbeams
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat. 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 day | det |
| 3 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 danced | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 6 | sunbeams | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 danced | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 danced | aux |
| 8 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | among | among | ADP | _ | 11 leaves | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 11 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 danced | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | present · perfect · passive | sunbeams | day | among my leaves | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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