The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 53
That mill is still grinding in Pohyola, its lid of many colors turns and turns and turns forever.
Who acts: mill, lid · What happens: grind, turn · To what, where: Pohyola
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 (mill, lid), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 mill | det |
| 2 | mill | mill | NOUN | _ | 5 grinding | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 grinding | aux |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 grinding | advmod |
| 5 | grinding | grind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Pohyola | case |
| 7 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 turns | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lid | punct |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lid | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turns | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 colors | case |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 colors | amod |
| 13 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lid | nmod |
| 14 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 grinding | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 turns | cc |
| 16 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 turns | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 turns | cc |
| 18 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 turns | conj |
| 19 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 18 turns | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grinding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grind | present · progressive | that mill | still | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | turn | present | mill's lid of many colors | Pohyola | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in pohyola=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | turn | present | mill's lid of many colors not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | turn | present | mill's lid of many colors not said here | forever property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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