The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 86
This oak tree had long been the monarch of the woods.
Who acts: oak tree · What happens: be · To what, where: monarch
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 (oak tree), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 tree | det |
| 2 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tree | compound |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 monarch | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 monarch | aux |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 monarch | advmod |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 monarch | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 monarch | det |
| 8 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 woods | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woods | det |
| 11 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 monarch | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 monarch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past · perfect | this oak tree | the monarch | of the woods; long property | tree rules |
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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