The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 86
She dipped some sprigs of white birches in wild honey and threw them into the water.
Who acts: Anniki · What happens: dip, throw · To what, where: sprigs, wild honey, water
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 (Anniki), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dipped | nsubj |
| 2 | dipped | dip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 sprigs | det |
| 4 | sprigs | sprig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dipped | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 birches | case |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 birches | amod |
| 7 | birches | birch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sprigs | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 honey | case |
| 9 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 honey | amod |
| 10 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dipped | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 threw | cc |
| 12 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dipped | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 threw | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 water | det |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 threw | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dip | past | Anniki | some sprigs of white birches | wild honey | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sprig=Theme in honey=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | throw | past | Anniki not said here | sprigs = sprig | into the water result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into water=Result |
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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