The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 34
Nowhere in the darksome water did he leave an open space through which a shiny fish could wriggle.
Who acts: wizard, shiny fish · What happens: leave, wriggle · To what, where: open space
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, shiny fish), 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 | Nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 leave | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 water | det |
| 4 | darksome | darksome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 water | amod |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nowhere | obl |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 leave | aux |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 leave | nsubj |
| 8 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 space | det |
| 10 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 space | amod |
| 11 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leave | obj |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 wriggle | obl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fish | det |
| 15 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fish | amod |
| 16 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wriggle | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 wriggle | aux |
| 18 | wriggle | wriggle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 space | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · do-support | wizard | a open space | nowhere property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Theme | |||
| 2 | wriggle | could | a shiny fish | a open space | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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