The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 27
Sever in twain the fish on which we are grounded.”
What happens: ground · To what, where: we
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: 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 | Sever | sever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 twain | case |
| 3 | twain | twain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sever | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fish | det |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 twain | appos |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 grounded | obl |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 grounded | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 grounded | aux:pass |
| 10 | grounded | ground | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fish | acl:relcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sever | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sever | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ground | present · passive | we | on the fish | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on which=Source |
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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