The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 85
It struck the Minstrel’s knee, cutting a red gash that was both wide and deep.
Who acts: grasp, red gash · What happens: strike, cut, be · To what, where: knee, red gash
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 (grasp, red gash), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 struck | nsubj |
| 2 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Minstrel | det |
| 4 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 knee | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Minstrel | case |
| 6 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 struck | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cutting | punct |
| 8 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 struck | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 gash | det |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gash | amod |
| 11 | gash | gash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cutting | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 wide | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 wide | cop |
| 14 | both | both | ADV | _ | 15 wide | advmod |
| 15 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gash | acl:relcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 deep | cc |
| 17 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wide | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | grasp | the Minstrel's knee | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knee=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cut | gerund | grasp not said here | a red gash | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gash=Product | ||||
| 3 | is | past | a red gash | both, wide property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | a red gash not said here | 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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