The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 28
This wizard had but one hand, and on it were three long and crooked fingers, fearful to behold, which he used in weaving nets.
Who acts: wizard, hand · What happens: have, be, use · To what, where: one hand, three long fingers, weaving nets
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 (wizard, hand), 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 | 2 wizard | det |
| 2 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 hand | cc |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 hand | nummod |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fearful | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fearful | cc |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 fingers | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fingers | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fingers | cop |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 fingers | nummod |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fingers | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 crooked | cc |
| 15 | crooked | crooked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 long | conj |
| 16 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fearful | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fingers | punct |
| 18 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 behold | case |
| 20 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 18 fearful | discourse |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 used | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 used | obj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 used | nsubj |
| 24 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fearful | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 nets | case |
| 26 | weaving | weaving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 nets | compound |
| 27 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 used | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | this wizard | one hand | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | hand | three long fingers | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use | past | wizard | weaving nets | which obj | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
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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