The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 34
Then she put it in a small basket and covered it with green oak leaves.
Who acts: task · What happens: put, cover · To what, where: slice, small basket
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 (task), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 basket | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 basket | det |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 basket | amod |
| 8 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 covered | cc |
| 10 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 covered | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 leaves | case |
| 13 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 leaves | amod |
| 14 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leaves | compound |
| 15 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 covered | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | task | slice | a small basket | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in basket=Destination | ||
| 2 | cover | past | task not said here | slice | with green oak leaves | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with leaf=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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