The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 1
Springtime had dawned in the Frozen Land.
What happens: dawn · To what, where: Springtime, Frozen Land
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs. 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 | Springtime | springtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dawned | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dawned | aux |
| 3 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Land | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Land | det |
| 6 | Frozen | Frozen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Land | compound |
| 7 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dawned | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dawned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dawn | past · perfect · passive | Springtime | the Frozen Land | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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