The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 104
The thunder rolled; the lightning flashed; the rainbow-bridge, Jumala’s bridge of many colors, was shivered and broken.
Who acts: thunder · What happens: roll, flash, shiver, break · To what, where: thunder, rainbow bridge
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Great Pike. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thunder), 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 | 2 thunder | det |
| 2 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flashed | nsubj |
| 3 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 thunder | acl |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 flashed | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lightning | det |
| 6 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flashed | nsubj |
| 7 | flashed | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 bridge | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bridge | det |
| 10 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bridge | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 rainbow | punct |
| 12 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flashed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bridge | punct |
| 14 | Jumala | Jumala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 bridge | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Jumala | case |
| 16 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bridge | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 colors | case |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 colors | amod |
| 19 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 bridge | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shivered | punct |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 shivered | aux:pass |
| 22 | shivered | shiver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 flashed | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 broken | cc |
| 24 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 shivered | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 flashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | participle | the thunder not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | flash | past | the thunder | the rainbow bridge and Jumala's bridge of many colors | the lightning nsubj | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | shiver | past · passive | the thunder not said here | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V» | |||||
| 4 | break | participle | the thunder not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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