The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 99
“Three times this summer a cuckoo has rested on my topmost bough.
What happens: rest · To what, where: Three times, topmost bough
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 times | punct |
| 2 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 times | nummod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rested | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 summer | det |
| 5 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cuckoo | det |
| 7 | cuckoo | cuckoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rested | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 rested | aux |
| 9 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 bough | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bough | nmod:poss |
| 12 | topmost | topmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bough | amod |
| 13 | bough | bough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rested | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Three times this summer | my topmost bough | a cuckoo nsubj:pass | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme on bough=Location |
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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