The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 12
And out of the gloom emerged the dwarfish form of old Sakko, the last and the wisest of all earth women.
What happens: emerge, form · To what, where: dwarfish form, gloom, old Sakko
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 emerged | cc |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 gloom | case |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gloom | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gloom | det |
| 5 | gloom | gloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 emerged | obl |
| 6 | emerged | emerge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 form | det |
| 8 | dwarfish | dwarfish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 form | amod |
| 9 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 emerged | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Sakko | case |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Sakko | amod |
| 12 | Sakko | Sakko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 form | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 last | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 last | det |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Sakko | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wisest | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wisest | det |
| 18 | wisest | wise | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 emerged | advcl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 women | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 women | det |
| 21 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 women | compound |
| 22 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wisest | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 emerged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | emerge | past | the dwarfish form of old Sakko | the gloom | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location form=Theme | ||||
| 2 | form | old Sakko | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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