The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 17
Of roasts and steaks there were certainly a hundred barrels; of sausages in large round links they made a hundred fathoms.
Who acts: hundred barrels, sausages · What happens: be, make · To what, where: hundred fathoms
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 (hundred barrels, sausages), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 roasts | case |
| 2 | roasts | roast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 were | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 steaks | cc |
| 4 | steaks | steak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 roasts | conj |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 were | expl |
| 6 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 9 hundred | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hundred | det |
| 9 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 barrels | nummod |
| 10 | barrels | barrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 were | nsubj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 sausages | punct |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sausages | case |
| 13 | sausages | sausage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 were | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 links | case |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 links | amod |
| 16 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 links | amod |
| 17 | links | link | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sausages | nmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 made | nsubj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 links | acl:relcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hundred | det |
| 21 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 fathoms | nummod |
| 22 | fathoms | fathom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 made | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | hundred barrels | there | of roasts and steaks; sausages in large round links nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | past | sausages = sausage | hundred fathoms | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fathom=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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