The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 88
He quickly gathered lichens and mosses from the tree trunks and the rocks, and these he bound upon the wound to stanch the bleeding.
Who acts: pain, these · What happens: gather, bind, stanch · To what, where: lichens, tree trunks, bleeding
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 (pain, these), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gathered | nsubj |
| 2 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 gathered | advmod |
| 3 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | lichens | lichen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gathered | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 mosses | cc |
| 6 | mosses | moss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lichens | conj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 trunks | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trunks | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trunks | compound |
| 10 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lichens | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rocks | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rocks | det |
| 13 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 trunks | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bound | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bound | cc |
| 16 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 bound | nsubj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bound | nsubj |
| 18 | bound | bind | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gathered | conj |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 wound | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wound | det |
| 21 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bound | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 stanch | mark |
| 23 | stanch | stanch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 bound | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bleeding | det |
| 25 | bleeding | bleeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stanch | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | pain | lichens and mosses | the tree trunks and the rocks | quickly property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent lichen=Theme from trunk=Source | ||
| 2 | bind | past | these | upon the wound; pain nsubj | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stanch | to-infinitive | these not said here | the bleeding | 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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