The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 68
“The mill is securely stored away in a stony cavern beneath a hill of copper.
What happens: store away · To what, where: mill, stony cavern
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 stored | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mill | det |
| 3 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stored | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stored | aux:pass |
| 5 | securely | securely | ADV | _ | 6 stored | advmod |
| 6 | stored | store | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 stored | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 cavern | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cavern | det |
| 10 | stony | stony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cavern | amod |
| 11 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stored | obl |
| 12 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 14 hill | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hill | det |
| 14 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cavern | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 copper | case |
| 16 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hill | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | store away in a quote | present · passive | the mill | a stony cavern beneath a hill of copper | away, securely property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in cavern=Location |
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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