The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 138
Put in food and feed for seven days’ journey—yes, for eight days of wintry weather.
Who acts: you, seven days · What happens: put, feed, journey · To what, where: food
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 (you, seven days), 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 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 food | case |
| 3 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 feed | cc |
| 5 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Put | conj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 journey | case |
| 7 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 days | nummod |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 journey | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 8 days | case |
| 10 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feed | obl |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
| 12 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 1 Put | discourse |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 days | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 days | case |
| 15 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 days | nummod |
| 16 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Put | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 weather | case |
| 18 | wintry | wintry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 weather | amod |
| 19 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 days | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | food | day | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in food=Destination | |||
| 2 | feed | present | you not said here | for seven days's journey | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | journey | seven days | nom journey «act transitive»: 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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