The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 7
Where once were miry marsh lands she saw green pastures with hundreds of sleek cattle grazing thereon.
Who acts: Dame, sleek cattle · What happens: be, land, see, graze · To what, where: miry marsh, green pastures
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 (Dame, sleek cattle), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 2 once | advmod |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 lands | advmod |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 marsh | cop |
| 4 | miry | miry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 marsh | amod |
| 5 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lands | csubj |
| 6 | lands | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lands | ccomp |
| 9 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pastures | amod |
| 10 | pastures | pasture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 hundreds | case |
| 12 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pastures | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 cattle | case |
| 14 | sleek | sleek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cattle | amod |
| 15 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hundreds | nmod |
| 16 | grazing | graze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 cattle | acl |
| 17 | thereon | thereon | ADV | _ | 16 grazing | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | miry marsh | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | land | present | once property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | past | Dame | green pastures | with hundreds of sleek cattle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pasture=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | graze | gerund | sleek cattle not said here | thereon property | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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