The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 25
But the threads were not of the sort she had spun before.
Who acts: threads, doom · What happens: not be, spin · To what, where: sort
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hag of the Rock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (threads, doom), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 sort | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 threads | det |
| 3 | threads | thread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sort | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sort | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 sort | advmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sort | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sort | det |
| 8 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 spun | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 spun | aux |
| 11 | spun | spin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 sort | acl:relcl |
| 12 | before | before | ADV | _ | 11 spun | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sort | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the threads | of the sort | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spin | past · perfect | doom | the sort not said here | before property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sort=Theme |
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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