The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 46
On each side of the way he beheld yawning chasms filled with yellow flames.
Who acts: heart · What happens: behold, yawn, fill · To what, where: side, chasms
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 (heart), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 side | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 side | det |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beheld | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 way | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 side | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 beheld | nsubj |
| 8 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | yawning | yawn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 beheld | xcomp |
| 10 | chasms | chasm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 yawning | obj |
| 11 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 chasms | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 flames | case |
| 13 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 flames | amod |
| 14 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 filled | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | past | heart | each side of the way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | yawn | gerund | heart not said here | chasms | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chasm=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fill | participle | chasms not said here | with yellow flames | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with flame=Instrument |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/15/46/