The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 31
The upper half was of wheaten flour, the lower half was of coarse oatmeal, and in the centre was a round black sandstone cunningly concealed.
Who acts: upper half, lower half · What happens: be, conceal · To what, where: round black sandstone, centre
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 (upper half, lower half), 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 | 3 half | det |
| 2 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 half | amod |
| 3 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 flour | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 flour | cop |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 flour | case |
| 6 | wheaten | wheaten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 flour | amod |
| 7 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 oatmeal | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 half | det |
| 10 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 half | amod |
| 11 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 15 oatmeal | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 oatmeal | cop |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 oatmeal | case |
| 14 | coarse | coarse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 oatmeal | amod |
| 15 | oatmeal | oatmeal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flour | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sandstone | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sandstone | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 centre | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 centre | det |
| 20 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sandstone | obl |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 sandstone | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 sandstone | det |
| 23 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sandstone | amod |
| 24 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sandstone | amod |
| 25 | sandstone | sandstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flour | conj |
| 26 | cunningly | cunningly | ADV | _ | 27 concealed | advmod |
| 27 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 sandstone | acl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 flour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the upper half | of wheaten flour and coarse oatmeal and a round black sandstone | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the lower half | of coarse oatmeal | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the upper half not said here | a round black sandstone | the centre | tree rules | |||
| 4 | conceal | participle | a round black sandstone not said here | cunningly property | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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