The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 122
The brown bark crackled with the heat, it shriveled and began to burn.
Who acts: brown bark · What happens: crackle, shrivel, begin, burn · To what, where: brown bark
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 (brown bark), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bark | det |
| 2 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bark | amod |
| 3 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shriveled | nsubj |
| 4 | crackled | crackle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bark | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 heat | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 heat | det |
| 7 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crackled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shriveled | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 shriveled | nsubj |
| 10 | shriveled | shrivel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 began | cc |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shriveled | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 burn | mark |
| 14 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 shriveled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crackle | participle | the brown bark not said here | with the heat | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with heat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shrivel | past | the brown bark | bark nsubj | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the brown bark not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | burn | to-infinitive | the brown bark not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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