The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 122
Her washing was left behind, where she had spread the pieces to dry; her ribbons were scattered upon the sand; even her shoes were forgotten, so hasty was her flight.
Who acts: washing, wind · What happens: leave behind, spread, dry, scatter, forget, be · To what, where: washing, pieces, ribbons, sand, shoes, hasty flight
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (washing, 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 washing | nmod:poss |
| 2 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | aux:pass |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 4 left | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spread | punct |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 spread | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 spread | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 spread | aux |
| 10 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 left | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pieces | det |
| 12 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 spread | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 dry | mark |
| 14 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 spread | advcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 scattered | punct |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 ribbons | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ribbons | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 scattered | aux:pass |
| 19 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 left | conj |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 sand | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sand | det |
| 22 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 scattered | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 forgotten | punct |
| 24 | even | even | ADV | _ | 26 shoes | advmod |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 forgotten | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 28 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 left | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hasty | punct |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 hasty | advmod |
| 31 | hasty | hasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 flight | amod |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 flight | cop |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 flight | nmod:poss |
| 34 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 forgotten | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave behind | past · passive | wind's washing | behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spread | past · perfect | washing | the pieces | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location piece=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dry | to-infinitive | washing not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | scatter | past · passive | wind's ribbons | the sand | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon sand=Destination | ||||
| 5 | forget | past · passive | wind's shoes | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | wind's hasty flight | wind nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | wash | wind | nom washing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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