The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 35
There are still others hanging on the bushes a little way up the shore.
Who acts: others · What happens: be, hang · To what, where: little way, bushes
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 (others), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 2 are | advmod |
| 4 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 5 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 others | acl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 bushes | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bushes | det |
| 8 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hanging | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 way | amod |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hanging | obl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 shore | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shore | det |
| 14 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 way | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | others | there | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | hang | gerund | others not said here | a little way up the shore | the bushes | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bush=Location |
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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