The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 61
Three years ago I saw her sitting on a rainbow and spinning threads of silver.
Who acts: I, Mistress · What happens: see, sit, spin · To what, where: Mistress, rainbow, threads
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Old Man’s Wooing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Mistress), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 saw | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 saw | xcomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 rainbow | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 rainbow | det |
| 10 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sitting | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 spinning | cc |
| 12 | spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 sitting | conj |
| 13 | threads | thread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 spinning | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 silver | case |
| 15 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 threads | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | Mistress | ago property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sit | gerund | Mistress not said here | a rainbow | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rainbow=Location | ||||
| 3 | spin | gerund | Mistress not said here | threads of silver | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thread=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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