The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 67
Narrow indeed it was, and crooked, and intricate; but for one whole day—yes, for two days and even three—he followed it, never swerving.
Who acts: you, footpath, planter, two days · What happens: narrow, be, follow, not swerve · To what, where: footpath
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 (you, footpath, planter, two days), 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 | Narrow | narrow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 1 Narrow | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 crooked | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 crooked | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 crooked | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 crooked | cc |
| 7 | crooked | crooked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Narrow | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 intricate | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 intricate | cc |
| 10 | intricate | intricate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crooked | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 swerving | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 swerving | cc |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 day | nummod |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 day | amod |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 swerving | obl |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 day | punct |
| 18 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 22 days | discourse |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 days | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 days | case |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 days | nummod |
| 22 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 swerving | nsubj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 three | cc |
| 24 | even | even | ADV | _ | 25 three | advmod |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 days | conj |
| 26 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 followed | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 followed | nsubj |
| 28 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 three | acl:relcl |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 followed | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 swerving | punct |
| 31 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 32 swerving | advmod |
| 32 | swerving | swerve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Narrow | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Narrow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | narrow | imperative | you not said here | indeed property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | footpath | intricate conj; crooked property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | follow | past | planter | footpath | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not swerve | gerund | two days | day | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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