The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 41
How ghost-like seemed the very air!
What happens: seem · To what, where: air
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: 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 like | advmod |
| 2 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 like | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 ghost | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 seemed | xcomp |
| 5 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 air | advmod |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seemed | obj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the air | like property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme air=Attribute |
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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