The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 1
Already great changes were taking place in Pohyola.
Who acts: great changes · What happens: take · To what, where: place, Pohyola
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Pursuit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great changes), 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 | Already | already | ADV | _ | 5 taking | advmod |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 changes | amod |
| 3 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 taking | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taking | aux |
| 5 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taking | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Pohyola | case |
| 8 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 place | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 taking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · progressive | great changes | place | Pohyola | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in pohyola=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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