The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 71
And lo! on the seventh day, he came suddenly upon the great giant himself, lying prone upon the earth amid the vast, eternal solitudes—lying prone upon the earth and gazing upward into the solemn sky and the unmeasured depths of infinity.
Who acts: planter, vast eternal solitudes · What happens: come, lie, gaze · To what, where: prone
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 (planter, vast eternal solitudes), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 2 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 10 came | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 lo | punct |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 day | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 giant | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 giant | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 giant | amod |
| 15 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 15 giant | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lying | punct |
| 18 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 came | advcl |
| 19 | prone | prone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lying | obj |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 amid | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 amid | det |
| 22 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 amid | compound |
| 23 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lying | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 solitudes | det |
| 25 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 solitudes | amod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 vast | punct |
| 27 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 solitudes | amod |
| 28 | solitudes | solitude | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 amid | nmod |
| 29 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 lying | punct |
| 30 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 solitudes | acl |
| 31 | prone | prone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lying | obj |
| 32 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 34 earth | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 earth | det |
| 34 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lying | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 gazing | cc |
| 36 | gazing | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 lying | conj |
| 37 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 36 gazing | advmod |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 41 sky | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 sky | det |
| 40 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 sky | amod |
| 41 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 gazing | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 depths | cc |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 depths | det |
| 44 | unmeasured | unmeasured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 depths | amod |
| 45 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 sky | conj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 infinity | case |
| 47 | infinity | infinity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 depths | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | planter | day | upon the great giant planter; suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon giant=Location | |||
| 2 | lie | gerund | planter not said here | prone | upon the earth amid the vast eternal solitudes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prone=Theme | |||
| 3 | lie | gerund | the vast eternal solitudes not said here | prone | upon the earth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prone=Theme | |||
| 4 | gaze | gerund | the vast eternal solitudes not said here | into the solemn sky and the unmeasured depths of infinity; upward property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into sky=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/17/71/