The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 24
Quickly the ale began its working, it filled the tubs, the white foam rose like mountains and poured itself in bubbles over the ground.
Who acts: ale, white foam · What happens: begin, fill, rise, pour · To what, where: working, tubs, ale, bubbles
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 (ale, white foam), 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 | Quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 began | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ale | det |
| 3 | ale | ale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 working | nmod:poss |
| 6 | working | working | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 began | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 filled | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 filled | nsubj |
| 9 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 began | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tubs | det |
| 11 | tubs | tub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 filled | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rose | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 foam | det |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 foam | amod |
| 15 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rose | nsubj |
| 16 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 began | conj |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 mountains | case |
| 18 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rose | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 poured | cc |
| 20 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 rose | conj |
| 21 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 poured | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 bubbles | case |
| 23 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 poured | obl |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 ground | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ground | det |
| 26 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 poured | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the ale | ale's working | quickly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent working=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | fill | past | ale | the tubs | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tub=Patient | ||||
| 3 | rise | past | the white foam | like mountains | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | pour | past | the white foam not said here | ale | bubbles | over the ground | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient |
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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