The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 1
At length the South Wind came again and stripped the earth of its white snow mantle.
Who acts: South Wind · What happens: come, strip · To what, where: length, earth
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (South Wind), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Wind | det |
| 4 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Wind | compound |
| 5 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stripped | cc |
| 9 | stripped | strip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 earth | det |
| 11 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stripped | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 mantle | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mantle | nmod:poss |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mantle | amod |
| 15 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mantle | compound |
| 16 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 earth | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the South Wind | length | again | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location | |||
| 2 | strip | past | the South Wind not said here | the earth of Wind's white snow mantle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient |
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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