The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 48
“And a brooch of woven silver?”
What happens: weave · To what, where: brooch
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 brooch | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 brooch | cc |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 brooch | det |
| 4 | brooch | brooch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 silver | case |
| 6 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 silver | amod |
| 7 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brooch | nmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 brooch | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 brooch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weave in a quote | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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