The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 62
He turned this way and that, he dived into the black depths of the stream, he sought everywhere for an opening through which he might pass.
Who acts: Wainamoinen · What happens: turn, dive, seek, pass · To what, where: way, black depths, opening
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 (Wainamoinen), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 that | cc |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 way | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dived | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dived | nsubj |
| 9 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 depths | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 depths | det |
| 12 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 depths | amod |
| 13 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dived | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 stream | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stream | det |
| 16 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 depths | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sought | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sought | nsubj |
| 19 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 20 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 sought | advmod |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 opening | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 opening | det |
| 23 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sought | obl |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 pass | obl |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 pass | nsubj |
| 27 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 pass | aux |
| 28 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 opening | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Wainamoinen | this way that | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dive | past | Wainamoinen | the black depths of the stream | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into depth=Location | ||||
| 3 | seek | past | Wainamoinen | for a opening; everywhere property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for opening=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pass | might | Wainamoinen | a opening | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through which=Location |
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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