The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 73

From the graybeard it is only a step, a stone’s throw, a short walk at most; from the babe upon the floor it may be a thousand weary leagues removed.

Who acts: journey, stone · What happens: be, remove, throw · To what, where: step, graybeard, thousand weary leagues

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 (journey, stone), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 graybeard	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 graybeard	det
3	graybeard	graybeard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 step	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 step	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 step	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 step	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 step	det
8	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 throw	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stone	det
11	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 throw	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 stone	case
13	throw	throw	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 step	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 walk	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 walk	det
16	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 walk	amod
17	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 throw	nmod
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 most	case
19	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 walk	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 babe	punct
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 babe	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 babe	det
23	babe	babe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 step	conj
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 floor	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 floor	det
26	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 babe	nmod
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 leagues	nsubj
28	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 leagues	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 leagues	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 thousand	det
31	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 leagues	nummod
32	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 leagues	amod
33	leagues	league	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 babe	nmod
34	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 leagues	acl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 step	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	journey	a step and a stone's throw a short walk at most and the babe upon the floor	the graybeard	a stone's throw a short walk at most conj; the babe upon the floor conj	tree rules
2	is a	may	journey	thousand weary leagues			tree rules
3	remove	participle		thousand weary leagues not said here			vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	throw		a stone				nom throw «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 73

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 73