The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 109
An hour passed by, the sun went down, and at length the Smith came forth from his bathing.
Who acts: hour, Smith · What happens: pass, go down, come, bathe · To what, where: hour, length
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hour, Smith), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hour | det |
| 2 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 hour | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 sun | case |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 by | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun | det |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 length | case |
| 13 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Smith | det |
| 15 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 length | appos |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 17 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 bathing | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 bathing | nmod:poss |
| 20 | bathing | bathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | a hour not said here | by the sun | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by sun=Location | ||||
| 2 | go down | past | a hour | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | come | past | a hour not said here | length | from Smith's bathing; forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bathing=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | bathe | Smith | nom bathing «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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