The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 131
Vile things in plenty—the poison of serpents, the spawn of toads, shiny lizards, squirming worms—a medley of horrors indescribable and foul.
What happens: squirm · To what, where: squirming worms
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela. 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 | Vile | vile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 things | amod |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 worms | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 plenty | case |
| 4 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 things | nmod |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 poison | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 poison | det |
| 7 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 worms | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 serpents | case |
| 9 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 poison | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spawn | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spawn | det |
| 12 | spawn | spawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 poison | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 toads | case |
| 14 | toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 spawn | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lizards | punct |
| 16 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lizards | amod |
| 17 | lizards | lizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 toads | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 squirming | punct |
| 19 | squirming | squirm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 worms | amod |
| 20 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 21 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 medley | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 medley | det |
| 23 | medley | medley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 worms | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 horrors | case |
| 25 | horrors | horror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 medley | nmod |
| 26 | indescribable | indescribable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 medley | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 foul | cc |
| 28 | foul | foul | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 indescribable | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 worms | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squirm | gerund | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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