The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 72
In a secluded valley between two mountains, he found a pine tree, green and slender and beautiful.
Who acts: keel · What happens: find · To what, where: pine tree, secluded valley
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 (keel), 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 | _ | 4 valley | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 valley | det |
| 3 | secluded | secluded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 valley | amod |
| 4 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obl |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 mountains | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 mountains | nummod |
| 7 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 valley | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 valley | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 12 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tree | compound |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 green | punct |
| 15 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 found | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 slender | cc |
| 17 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 green | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 beautiful | cc |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 green | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | keel | a pine tree | a secluded valley between two mountains | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Topic |
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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