The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 39
The whole milk-house will be flooded.”
What happens: flood · To what, where: whole milk house
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 house | amod |
| 3 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 house | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 milk | punct |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flooded | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 flooded | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 flooded | aux:pass |
| 8 | flooded | flood | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 flooded | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 flooded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flood | future · passive | the whole milk house | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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