The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 49
In a cave on the hillside there dwelt a brown dwarf, the last of the ancient race of earth men.
Who acts: earth men · What happens: dwell, race · To what, where: brown dwarf, cave
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: who acts (earth men), 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 cave | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cave | det |
| 3 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dwelt | obl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 hillside | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hillside | det |
| 6 | hillside | hillside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cave | nmod |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 dwelt | advmod |
| 8 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dwarf | det |
| 10 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dwarf | amod |
| 11 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dwelt | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 last | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 last | det |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dwarf | amod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 race | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 race | det |
| 17 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 race | amod |
| 18 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 last | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 men | case |
| 20 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 men | compound |
| 21 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 race | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | a brown dwarf | a cave on the hillside; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme dwarf=Location | ||||
| 2 | race | earth men | nom race «event intransitive»: of=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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