The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 30
Thus, in that short silent night of summer, he wove a hundred broad nets of iron—yes, a thousand small-meshed nets of twisted metal.
Who acts: Hag · What happens: weave, mesh · To what, where: hundred broad 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 (Hag), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 12 wove | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thus | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 night | nsubj |
| 5 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 night | amod |
| 6 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 night | amod |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wove | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 summer | case |
| 9 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 night | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 night | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 wove | nsubj |
| 12 | wove | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hundred | det |
| 14 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 nets | nummod |
| 15 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 nets | amod |
| 16 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wove | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 iron | case |
| 18 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nets | nmod |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 nets | punct |
| 20 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 27 nets | discourse |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 yes | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 thousand | det |
| 23 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 nets | nummod |
| 24 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 meshed | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 small | punct |
| 26 | meshed | mesh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 nets | amod |
| 27 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wove | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 metal | case |
| 29 | twisted | twisted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 metal | amod |
| 30 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 nets | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 wove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weave | past | Hag | hundred broad nets of iron | night | thousand meshed nets of twisted metal obl; thus property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Product | ||
| 2 | mesh | participle | 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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