The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 8
Where once were sandy barrens and wind-swept hills she saw fruitful orchards and blooming gardens.
Who acts: sandy barrens · What happens: be, sweep, see, bloom · To what, where: sandy barrens, fruitful orchards
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 (sandy barrens), 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 | 12 saw | advmod |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 barrens | advmod |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 barrens | cop |
| 4 | sandy | sandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 barrens | amod |
| 5 | barrens | barren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hills | cc |
| 7 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swept | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 wind | punct |
| 9 | swept | sweep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 hills | amod |
| 10 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 barrens | conj |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | fruitful | fruitful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 orchards | amod |
| 14 | orchards | orchard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 saw | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gardens | cc |
| 16 | blooming | bloom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 gardens | amod |
| 17 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 orchards | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | sandy barrens and swept hills | swept hills conj; once property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sweep | participle | wind compound | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | past | sandy barrens and swept hills | fruitful orchards and blooming gardens | Dame nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer orchard=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | bloom | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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