The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 18
Seven boat loads of blood flowed from the great beef’s veins.
What happens: flow · To what, where: blood, veins, Seven boat loads
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: 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 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 loads | nummod |
| 2 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loads | compound |
| 3 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 blood | case |
| 5 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loads | nmod |
| 6 | flowed | flow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 blood | acl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 veins | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 beef | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beef | amod |
| 10 | beef | beef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 veins | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 beef | case |
| 12 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 flowed | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 loads | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | participle | blood not said here | the great beef's veins | 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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