The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 86
A stream of blood gushed forth; it flowed like a crimson torrent down the mountain side; it stained the snow in the forest and the brown grass in the meadows.
Who acts: stream · What happens: gush, flow, stain · To what, where: stream, snow, forest
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 (stream), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 stream | det |
| 2 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flowed | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 blood | case |
| 4 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stream | nmod |
| 5 | gushed | gush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stream | acl |
| 6 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 5 gushed | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 flowed | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 flowed | nsubj |
| 9 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 torrent | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 torrent | det |
| 12 | crimson | crimson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 torrent | compound |
| 13 | torrent | torrent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flowed | obl |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 side | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 side | det |
| 16 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 side | compound |
| 17 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 torrent | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 stained | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stained | nsubj |
| 20 | stained | stain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 flowed | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 snow | det |
| 22 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stained | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 forest | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 forest | det |
| 25 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stained | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 grass | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 grass | det |
| 28 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 grass | amod |
| 29 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 forest | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 meadows | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 meadows | det |
| 32 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 stained | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 flowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gush | participle | a stream of blood not said here | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | flow | past | a stream of blood | like a crimson torrent down the mountain side | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stain | past | stream | the snow | the forest and the brown grass | in the meadows | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme snow=Destination |
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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