The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 14
“Unknown to him, I was hidden close beside the field of deadly serpents.
What happens: hide · To what, where: wise Dame, field
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Unknown | punct |
| 2 | Unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Unknown | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hidden | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 hidden | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hidden | aux:pass |
| 8 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Unknown | conj |
| 9 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 hidden | advmod |
| 10 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 12 field | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 field | det |
| 12 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hidden | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 serpents | case |
| 14 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 serpents | amod |
| 15 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 field | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Unknown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide in a quote | past · passive | wise Dame = dame | the field of deadly serpents | close property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient beside field=Location |
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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