The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 78
By and by from the black mud at the river’s bottom a water sprite arose.
Who acts: water sprite · What happens: arise
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 (water sprite), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 7 mud | case |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 mud | cc |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 mud | case |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 mud | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mud | det |
| 6 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mud | amod |
| 7 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 arose | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 bottom | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 river | det |
| 10 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bottom | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 river | case |
| 12 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mud | nmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sprite | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sprite | compound |
| 15 | sprite | sprite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 arose | nsubj |
| 16 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | a water sprite | by the black mud at the river's bottom | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by mud=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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