The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 55
Father and grandfather used to go out often in the season for catching such fish.
Who acts: Father · What happens: use, go out, catch · To what, where: such fish
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 (Father), 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 | Father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 used | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 grandfather | cc |
| 3 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Father | conj |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 used | xcomp |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 season | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 season | det |
| 11 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 catching | mark |
| 13 | catching | catch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 go | advcl |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fish | amod |
| 15 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 catching | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | Father and grandfather | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | go out | to-infinitive | Father and grandfather not said here | season | often, out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | catch | gerund | Father and grandfather not said here | such fish | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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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