The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 34
See the clothes that are spread on the sandy beach to dry.
Who acts: you · What happens: see, spread, dry · To what, where: clothes, sandy beach
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 (you), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 clothes | det |
| 3 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 1 See | obj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 spread | aux:pass |
| 6 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 clothes | acl:relcl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 beach | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 beach | det |
| 9 | sandy | sandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beach | amod |
| 10 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spread | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 dry | mark |
| 12 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 spread | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | the clothes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer clothes=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | spread | present · passive | the clothes | the sandy beach | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on beach=Destination | ||||
| 3 | dry | to-infinitive | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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