The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 14
Is it some rock, or is it the snaggy trunk of some forest tree lying deep beneath the waves?”
Who acts: Minstrel, forest tree · What happens: be, lie · To what, where: rock, snaggy trunk, waves
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel, forest tree), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rock | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rock | nsubj |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 rock | det |
| 4 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 trunk | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 trunk | cc |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 trunk | cop |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 trunk | nsubj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 trunk | det |
| 10 | snaggy | snaggy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 trunk | amod |
| 11 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rock | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 tree | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 tree | det |
| 14 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tree | compound |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trunk | nmod |
| 16 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 tree | acl |
| 17 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 16 lying | advmod |
| 18 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 20 waves | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 waves | det |
| 20 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lying | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 rock | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 rock | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Minstrel | some rock or the snaggy trunk | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Minstrel | the snaggy trunk | of some forest tree | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lie | gerund | some forest tree not said here | the waves | deep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath wave=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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