The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 62
And so, from the rocks by the seaside he gathered flakes of gold, scales of gold, nuggets of gold, until he had filled a basket almost as large as himself.
Who acts: rocks, Beauty · What happens: gather, fill · To what, where: flakes, basket
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 (rocks, Beauty), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gathered | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 gathered | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rocks | punct |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 rocks | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rocks | det |
| 6 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gathered | nsubj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 seaside | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 seaside | det |
| 9 | seaside | seaside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rocks | nmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gathered | nsubj |
| 11 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | flakes | flake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gathered | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 gold | case |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flakes | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 scales | punct |
| 16 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flakes | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 gold | case |
| 18 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 scales | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 nuggets | punct |
| 20 | nuggets | nugget | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flakes | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 gold | case |
| 22 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 nuggets | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 filled | punct |
| 24 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 27 filled | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 filled | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 filled | aux |
| 27 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 gathered | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 basket | det |
| 29 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 filled | obj |
| 30 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 31 as | advmod |
| 31 | as | as | ADV | _ | 32 large | advmod |
| 32 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 filled | advcl |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 himself | case |
| 34 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 large | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | the rocks by the seaside | flakes of gold and scales of gold and nuggets of gold | Beauty nsubj | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flake=Theme | |||
| 2 | fill | past · perfect | Beauty | a basket | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent basket=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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