The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 105
She looked into the barns; they had not been plundered, not an ear of corn had been taken.
Who acts: Louhi · What happens: look, not plunder, take · To what, where: barns, ear
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Louhi), 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 | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 barns | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 barns | det |
| 5 | barns | barn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 looked | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 plundered | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 plundered | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 plundered | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 plundered | advmod |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 plundered | aux:pass |
| 11 | plundered | plunder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 looked | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ear | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 ear | advmod |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ear | det |
| 15 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 plundered | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 corn | case |
| 17 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taken | obl |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 taken | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 taken | aux:pass |
| 20 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 ear | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Louhi | into the barns | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into barn=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not plunder | past · perfect · passive | barns = barn | a ear obl | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | ||||
| 3 | take | past · perfect · passive | a ear not said here | of corn | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: of corn=Initial_Location |
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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