The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 4
Where are its boundary lines, and what is its extent?
Who acts: boundary lines · What happens: be · To what, where: extent
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: who acts (boundary lines), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | cop |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lines | nmod:poss |
| 4 | boundary | boundary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lines | amod |
| 5 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Where | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 extent | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 extent | cc |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 extent | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 extent | cop |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 extent | nmod:poss |
| 11 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lines | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Where | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | location's boundary lines | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | location's boundary lines | location's extent | location nmod:poss | 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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