The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 108
Twelve mighty furrows did the hero plough lengthwise of the field, then, turning, he made twelve other furrows across the width of it.
Who acts: Twelve mighty furrows, hero · What happens: plough, turn, make · To what, where: twelve other furrows, width
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Twelve mighty furrows, hero), 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 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 furrows | nummod |
| 2 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 furrows | amod |
| 3 | furrows | furrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 plough | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 plough | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hero | det |
| 6 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 plough | nsubj |
| 7 | plough | plough | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | lengthwise | lengthwise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 plough | xcomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 field | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 field | det |
| 11 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lengthwise | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 turning | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 turning | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 turning | punct |
| 15 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 plough | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 plough | parataxis |
| 19 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 furrows | nummod |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 furrows | amod |
| 21 | furrows | furrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 made | obj |
| 22 | across | across | ADP | _ | 24 width | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 width | det |
| 24 | width | width | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 width | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 plough | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plough | past · do-support | Twelve mighty furrows | the hero nsubj; lengthwise property | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | turn | gerund | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | past | hero | twelve other furrows | the width of width | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent furrow=Product |
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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