The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 61
“But the time is passing,” answered the long-armed one; “daylight is fading and darkness is approaching.
Who acts: time, armed one, daylight, darkness · What happens: pass, answer, fade, approach · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (time, armed one, daylight, darkness), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 passing | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 passing | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passing | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 passing | aux |
| 6 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 answered | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 passing | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 passing | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 armed | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 long | punct |
| 13 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | amod |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 fading | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 fading | punct |
| 17 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fading | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 fading | aux |
| 19 | fading | fade | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 answered | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 approaching | cc |
| 21 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 approaching | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 approaching | aux |
| 23 | approaching | approach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 fading | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass in a quote | present · progressive | the time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the armed one | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fade in a quote | present · progressive | daylight | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | approach in a quote | present · progressive | darkness | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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