The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 130
Perhaps they are concealed in the head of a swan, in the brain of a goose, or under the tongue of a swallow.
What happens: conceal · To what, where: words, head
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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 concealed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 concealed | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 concealed | aux:pass |
| 4 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 head | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 head | det |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 concealed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 swan | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 swan | det |
| 10 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 head | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 brain | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 brain | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 brain | det |
| 14 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 concealed | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 goose | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 goose | det |
| 17 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brain | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tongue | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 tongue | cc |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 tongue | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tongue | det |
| 22 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brain | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 swallow | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 swallow | det |
| 25 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tongue | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 concealed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conceal | present · passive | words = word | the head of a swan | the brain of a goose or the tongue of a swallow parataxis; perhaps property | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in head=Location |
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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