The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 57
Presently the little man paused beside an aspen, smooth of bark, and tall and graceful.
Who acts: little man · What happens: pause, smooth · To what, where: aspen, bark
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 (little man), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 5 paused | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paused | nsubj |
| 5 | paused | pause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 8 aspen | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 aspen | det |
| 8 | aspen | aspen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paused | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 smooth | punct |
| 10 | smooth | smooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 aspen | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bark | case |
| 12 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 smooth | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tall | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tall | cc |
| 15 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 paused | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 graceful | cc |
| 17 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tall | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | participle | the little man | a aspen and smooth of bark | presently property | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside aspen=Location | |||
| 2 | smooth | bark | nom smooth «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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