The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 15
High in the sky he saw a rainbow, and on it sat the Maid of Beauty, busily weaving with a golden shuttle.
Who acts: High sky, rainbow · What happens: see, sit, weave · To what, where: rainbow, Maid
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of Beauty. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (High sky, rainbow), 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 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sky | amod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 sky | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sky | det |
| 4 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rainbow | det |
| 8 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sat | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sat | cc |
| 11 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 13 sat | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sat | nsubj |
| 13 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Maid | det |
| 15 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sat | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Beauty | case |
| 17 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Maid | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 weaving | punct |
| 19 | busily | busily | ADV | _ | 20 weaving | advmod |
| 20 | weaving | weave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 sat | advcl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 shuttle | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 shuttle | det |
| 23 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 shuttle | amod |
| 24 | shuttle | shuttle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 weaving | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the High sky | a rainbow | sky nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rainbow=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | sit | past | rainbow | the Maid of Beauty | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location maid=Theme | ||||
| 3 | weave | gerund | rainbow not said here | with a golden shuttle; busily property | vn run-51.3.2 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/3/15/