The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 52
His days were spent in the forest and his nights in the unexplored chambers of his cavern home.
What happens: spend · To what, where: days, forest
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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 days | nmod:poss |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spent | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spent | aux:pass |
| 4 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 forest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forest | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spent | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 nights | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 nights | nmod:poss |
| 10 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 forest | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 chambers | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chambers | det |
| 13 | unexplored | unexplored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chambers | amod |
| 14 | chambers | chamber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spent | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 cavern | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 cavern | nmod:poss |
| 17 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chambers | nmod |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 spent | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past · passive | dwarf's days | the forest and dwarf's nights | in the unexplored chambers of dwarf's cavern; home property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
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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