The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 93
There below him he saw the fields and the meadows and the old familiar places where he and his mate had oftentimes nested and reared their young.
Who acts: chin · What happens: see, nest, rear · To what, where: fields, meadows, young
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 (chin), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 saw | expl |
| 2 | below | below | ADP | _ | 3 him | case |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fields | det |
| 7 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 nested | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 meadows | det |
| 10 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 nested | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 places | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 places | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 places | amod |
| 14 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 places | amod |
| 15 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 nested | nsubj |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 had | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 mate | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mate | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 he | conj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 nested | aux |
| 22 | oftentimes | oftentime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 had | obj |
| 23 | nested | nest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 saw | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 reared | cc |
| 25 | reared | rear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 young | nmod:poss |
| 27 | young | young | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 reared | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | chin | the fields | there | below chin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer field=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | nest | past · perfect · passive | the meadows | the old familiar places nsubj | vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Location | ||||
| 3 | rear | past | chin not said here | meadows's young | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Patient |
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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