The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 67
“In those pleasant waters many wild geese abound, and there they build their nests and rear their young.
Who acts: pleasant waters, geese · What happens: abound, build, rear · To what, where: nests, young
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 (pleasant waters, geese), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 abound | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 those | case |
| 3 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 waters | det |
| 4 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 waters | amod |
| 5 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 abound | nsubj |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 geese | amod |
| 7 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 geese | amod |
| 8 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 waters | nmod |
| 9 | abound | abound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 build | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 build | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 build | expl |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 build | nsubj |
| 14 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 abound | parataxis |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 nests | nmod:poss |
| 16 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 build | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rear | cc |
| 18 | rear | rear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 build | conj |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 young | nmod:poss |
| 20 | young | young | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rear | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 abound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abound in a quote | present | that pleasant waters many wild geese | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | build in a quote | present | geese = goose | geese's nests | there | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product | |||
| 3 | rear in a quote | present | geese = goose not said here | geese's young | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=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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