The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 70
The third day came, it was mid-day, when a long white shore and the lofty headland of Wainola appeared lying far away between the sea and the sky.
Who acts: third day, Land, long white shore · What happens: come, be, appear, lie · To what, where: mid-day, sea
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 (third day, Land, long white shore), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mid-day | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 mid-day | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mid-day | cop |
| 8 | mid-day | mid-day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 appeared | punct |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 appeared | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 shore | det |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 shore | amod |
| 13 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 shore | amod |
| 14 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 appeared | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 headland | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 headland | det |
| 17 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 headland | amod |
| 18 | headland | headland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shore | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Wainola | case |
| 20 | Wainola | Wainola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 headland | nmod |
| 21 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mid-day | acl:relcl |
| 22 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 appeared | xcomp |
| 23 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 away | advmod |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 lying | advmod |
| 25 | between | between | ADP | _ | 27 sea | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sea | det |
| 27 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lying | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 sky | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sky | det |
| 30 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sea | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the third day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Land | mid-day | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | appear | past | a long white shore and the lofty headland of Wainola | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | lie | gerund | a long white shore and the lofty headland of Wainola not said here | the sea and the sky | away property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between sea=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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