The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 4
Fishes were scarce and shy and the fishermen were disheartened.
Who acts: Fishes · What happens: be, dishearten · To what, where: fishermen
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fishes), 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 | Fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 scarce | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scarce | cop |
| 3 | scarce | scarce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 shy | cc |
| 5 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 scarce | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 disheartened | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fishermen | det |
| 8 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 disheartened | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 disheartened | aux:pass |
| 10 | disheartened | dishearten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 scarce | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scarce | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Fishes | scarce property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Fishes not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | dishearten | past · passive | the fishermen | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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