The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 14
A stupendous ox he was, larger by far than any that grows in our degenerate times.
Who acts: stupendous ox, any · What happens: be, grow
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wedding Feast. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stupendous ox, any), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ox | det |
| 2 | stupendous | stupendous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ox | amod |
| 3 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 larger | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 larger | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 larger | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 larger | punct |
| 7 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 far | case |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 larger | obl |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 13 grows | mark |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 grows | nsubj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 grows | nsubj |
| 13 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 larger | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 times | case |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 times | nmod:poss |
| 16 | degenerate | degenerate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 times | amod |
| 17 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 grows | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 larger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a stupendous ox | bull nsubj; large property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | any | time | that nsubj | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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