The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 118
At first he saw nothing there; then suddenly on the horizon a rainbow appeared with a single gray cloud beyond it.
Who acts: fisherman, rainbow · What happens: see, appear · To what, where: nothing, horizon
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman, rainbow), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 saw | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 nothing | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 appeared | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 appeared | advmod |
| 9 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 15 appeared | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 horizon | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 horizon | det |
| 12 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 appeared | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 rainbow | det |
| 14 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 appeared | nsubj |
| 15 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 cloud | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cloud | det |
| 18 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cloud | amod |
| 19 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cloud | compound |
| 20 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 appeared | obl |
| 21 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cloud | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | fisherman | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | a rainbow | the horizon | then | with a single gray cloud beyond cloud; suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horizon=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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