The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 120
Around his waist was a magic girdle fastened with gold buckles.
What happens: be, fasten · To what, where: magic girdle, waist
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: 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 | Around | around | ADP | _ | 3 waist | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 waist | nmod:poss |
| 3 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 girdle | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 girdle | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 girdle | det |
| 6 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girdle | amod |
| 7 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 girdle | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 buckles | case |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 buckles | compound |
| 11 | buckles | buckle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fastened | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 girdle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a magic girdle | Smith's waist | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fasten | participle | a magic girdle not said here | with gold buckles | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with buckle=Co-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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