The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 40
The road to Tuonela is here, and many are the feet that are travelling in it.
Who acts: road, many feet · What happens: be, travel · To what, where: many feet, road
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road, many feet), 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 | 2 road | det |
| 2 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 here | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Tuonela | case |
| 4 | Tuonela | Tuonela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 road | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 here | cop |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 feet | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 feet | cc |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 feet | amod |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 feet | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 feet | det |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 here | parataxis |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 travelling | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 travelling | aux |
| 15 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 feet | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 travelling | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the road to Tuonela | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the many feet | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | travel | present · progressive | the many feet | road | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Trajectory |
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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