The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 111
It was the voice of old Sakko, the dwarf, the last daughter of the race of earth men.
Who acts: voice, earth men · What happens: be, race · To what, where: voice
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: who acts (voice, earth men), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 voice | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 voice | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 voice | det |
| 4 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Sakko | case |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Sakko | amod |
| 7 | Sakko | Sakko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 voice | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dwarf | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dwarf | det |
| 10 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Sakko | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 daughter | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 daughter | det |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 daughter | amod |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Sakko | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 race | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 race | det |
| 17 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 daughter | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 men | case |
| 19 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 men | compound |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 race | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 voice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | voice | the voice | of old Sakko and the last daughter of the race of earth men | tree rules | |||
| 2 | race | earth men | nom race «event intransitive»: of=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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