The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 17
Three times he walked around it, three times he drew a magic circle about it.
Who acts: sea · What happens: walk, draw · To what, where: side, magic circle
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Launching. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 walked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | around | around | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 walked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drew | punct |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 times | nummod |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 drew | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 drew | nsubj |
| 11 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 circle | det |
| 13 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 circle | amod |
| 14 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drew | obj |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 circle | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | sea | side | time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around it=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | draw | past | sea | a magic circle | time | about side | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circle=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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