The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 16
Twelve broad furrows he made towards the east, towards the west; twelve other furrows he made towards the north, towards the south.
Who acts: Twelve broad furrows, twelve other furrows · What happens: make
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 (Twelve broad furrows, twelve other furrows), 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 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 furrows | amod |
| 3 | furrows | furrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 made | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 8 east | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 east | det |
| 8 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 west | punct |
| 10 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 12 west | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 west | det |
| 12 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 14 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 furrows | nummod |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 furrows | amod |
| 16 | furrows | furrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 made | nsubj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 19 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 21 north | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 north | det |
| 21 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 south | punct |
| 23 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 25 south | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 south | det |
| 25 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Twelve broad furrows | towards the east; towards the west; man nsubj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | make | past | twelve other furrows | towards the north; towards the south; man nsubj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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