The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 46
They plough, they sow, they reap in great abundance.
Who acts: people · What happens: plough, sow, reap · To what, where: great abundance
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 (people), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 plough | nsubj |
| 2 | plough | plough | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sow | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sow | nsubj |
| 5 | sow | sow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 plough | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 reap | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 reap | nsubj |
| 8 | reap | reap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 plough | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 abundance | case |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 abundance | amod |
| 11 | abundance | abundance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reap | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 plough | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plough | present | people | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sow | present | people | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | reap | present | people | great abundance | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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