The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 77
But most of all, they wondered at the manner in which the bones were laid, this way and that, and knit firmly into a framework both neat and strong.
Who acts: most · What happens: wonder, lay, knit · To what, where: way, manner, bones, framework
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Bridegroom’s Triumph. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (most), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 wondered | cc |
| 2 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 wondered | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 most | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wondered | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wondered | nsubj |
| 7 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 manner | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 manner | det |
| 10 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wondered | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 laid | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bones | det |
| 14 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 laid | aux:pass |
| 16 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 manner | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 way | punct |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 way | det |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wondered | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 that | cc |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 way | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 knit | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 knit | cc |
| 24 | knit | knit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wondered | conj |
| 25 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 24 knit | advmod |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 framework | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 framework | det |
| 28 | framework | framework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 knit | obl |
| 29 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 30 neat | cc:preconj |
| 30 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 framework | amod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 strong | cc |
| 32 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 neat | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past | most of all | this way that | the manner | size nsubj | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | lay | past · passive | the bones | the manner | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination | ||||
| 3 | knit | infinitive | most of all not said here | a framework | firmly property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into framework=Product |
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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