The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 2
The sun had not been able to rise above the horizon and short was the interval between night and night.
Who acts: sun, able · What happens: not be, rise, be · To what, where: horizon, interval
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hero’s Return. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, able), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 able | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 able | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 able | advmod |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 able | cop |
| 6 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 interval | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 rise | mark |
| 8 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | xcomp |
| 9 | above | above | ADP | _ | 11 horizon | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 horizon | det |
| 11 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rise | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 short | cc |
| 13 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 able | conj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 interval | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 interval | det |
| 16 | interval | interval | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | between | between | ADP | _ | 18 night | case |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 interval | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 night | cc |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 interval | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 interval | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past · perfect | the sun | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rise | to-infinitive | the sun not said here | the horizon | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above horizon=Location | ||||
| 3 | be | the sun not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | able | the interval and night | night | 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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