The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 19
She could hear the grains of gold dropping, dropping—the precious royal sap feeding the rootlets of the corn, filling the apple blossoms with nectar, and pervading the rich warm soil itself.
Who acts: sound, precious royal sap, apple · What happens: hear, drop, feed, fill, blossom, pervade · To what, where: grains, precious royal sap, rootlets, rich warm soil
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, precious royal sap, apple), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | aux |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 grains | det |
| 5 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hear | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 dropping | case |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dropping | compound |
| 8 | dropping | dropping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grains | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dropping | punct |
| 10 | dropping | drop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 hear | advcl |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 sap | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sap | det |
| 13 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sap | amod |
| 14 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sap | amod |
| 15 | sap | SAP | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dropping | obl |
| 16 | feeding | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 sap | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rootlets | det |
| 18 | rootlets | rootlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 feeding | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 corn | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 corn | det |
| 21 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rootlets | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 filling | punct |
| 23 | filling | fill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 dropping | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 apple | det |
| 25 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 blossoms | nsubj |
| 26 | blossoms | blossom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 filling | parataxis |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 nectar | case |
| 28 | nectar | nectar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 blossoms | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pervading | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 pervading | cc |
| 31 | pervading | pervade | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 dropping | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 soil | det |
| 33 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 soil | amod |
| 34 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 soil | amod |
| 35 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 pervading | obj |
| 36 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 35 soil | nmod:unmarked |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | could | sound | the grains of gold dropping | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer grain=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | drop | gerund | sound not said here | the precious royal sap | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feed | gerund | the precious royal sap not said here | the rootlets of the corn | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rootlet=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | fill | gerund | sound not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | blossom | present | the apple | with nectar | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with nectar=Theme | ||||
| 6 | pervade | gerund | sound not said here | the rich warm soil apple | tree rules |
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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