The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 144
The sun was now well down towards the western hills, and the evening milking time was nigh at hand.
Who acts: sun, milking time · What happens: be · To what, where: hand
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, milking time), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 down | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 down | cop |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 down | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 down | advmod |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 nigh | advmod |
| 7 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 10 hills | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hills | det |
| 9 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hills | amod |
| 10 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 down | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 nigh | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 nigh | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 14 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 milking | compound |
| 15 | milking | milking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 time | compound |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nigh | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 nigh | cop |
| 18 | nigh | nigh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 hand | case |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nigh | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 nigh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sun | now | towards the western hills; down, well property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | the milking time | hand | nigh property | tree rules |
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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