The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 29

Away from the shore, she saw the broad meadows lying lonely and still under the lonely sky and beyond them the dark line which marked the beginning of the forest and the rugged land of mountains.

Who acts: maiden, broad meadows, dark line · What happens: see, lie, mark, begin · To what, where: broad meadows, shore, beginning, forest

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, broad meadows, dark line), 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	Away	away	ADV	_	7 saw	advmod
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 shore	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shore	det
4	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shore	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 meadows	det
9	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 meadows	amod
10	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 saw	obj
11	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 meadows	acl
12	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lying	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sky	cc
14	still	still	ADV	_	18 sky	advmod
15	under	under	ADP	_	18 sky	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sky	det
17	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sky	amod
18	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lonely	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 them	cc
20	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sky	nmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 line	det
23	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 line	amod
24	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 them	appos
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 marked	nsubj
26	marked	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 line	acl:relcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 beginning	det
28	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 marked	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 forest	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 forest	det
31	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 beginning	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 land	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 land	det
34	rugged	rugged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 land	amod
35	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 forest	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 mountains	case
37	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 land	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	maiden	the broad meadows	the shore	away property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meadow=Stimulus
2	lie	gerund	the broad meadows not said here			lonely property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	mark	past	the dark line	the beginning of the forest and the rugged land of mountains			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent beginning=Destination
4	begin			the forest and the rugged land of mountains			nom beginning «event transitive»: of=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 29

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 29