The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 33
So the wizard, with his hard and crooked fingers, stretched them, one by one, across the river; he stretched them, this way and that, along the sullen stream; he stretched them all around the gray-peaked island, the kingdom of Tuoni.
Who acts: wizard · What happens: stretch, peak · To what, where: nets, river, peaked island
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 12 stretched | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wizard | det |
| 3 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stretched | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fingers | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 fingers | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fingers | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 crooked | cc |
| 9 | crooked | crooked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hard | conj |
| 10 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wizard | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wizard | punct |
| 12 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stretched | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 stretched | obl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 one | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 one | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 river | punct |
| 19 | across | across | ADP | _ | 21 river | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 river | det |
| 21 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stretched | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 stretched | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 stretched | nsubj |
| 24 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stretched | conj |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 stretched | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 way | punct |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 way | det |
| 28 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stretched | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 that | cc |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 way | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 stream | punct |
| 32 | along | along | ADP | _ | 35 stream | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 stream | det |
| 34 | sullen | sullen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 stream | amod |
| 35 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stretched | obl |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 stretched | punct |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 stretched | nsubj |
| 38 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stretched | conj |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 stretched | obj |
| 40 | all | all | ADV | _ | 46 island | advmod |
| 41 | around | around | ADP | _ | 46 island | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 island | det |
| 43 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 peaked | compound |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 gray | punct |
| 45 | peaked | peak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 island | amod |
| 46 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 stretched | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 kingdom | punct |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 kingdom | det |
| 49 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 island | conj |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 Tuoni | case |
| 51 | Tuoni | Tuoni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 kingdom | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | past | the wizard and wizard's hard fingers | nets = net | the river | one by one obl | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||
| 2 | stretch | past | wizard | nets = net | along the sullen stream; this way that obl | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 3 | stretch | past | wizard | nets = net | the peaked island and the kingdom of Tuoni | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 4 | peak | participle | gray compound | 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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