The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 99
Round as cranberries and large as the heads of swallows his tears fell, chasing each other to the ground.
Who acts: tears · What happens: fall, chase · To what, where: swallows, each, ground
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 (tears), 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 | Round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 cranberries | case |
| 3 | cranberries | cranberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Round | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 large | cc |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Round | conj |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 heads | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 heads | det |
| 8 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 large | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 swallows | case |
| 10 | swallows | swallow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 heads | nmod |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 tears | nmod:poss |
| 12 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 swallows | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 chasing | punct |
| 15 | chasing | chase | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 fell | advcl |
| 16 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 15 chasing | obj |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 each | fixed |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 ground | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ground | det |
| 20 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 chasing | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Round | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | heart's tears | swallows not said here | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient swallow=Result | ||||
| 2 | chase | gerund | heart's tears not said here | each | the ground | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent each=Theme to ground=Trajectory |
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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