The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 2
The frost spirit, peeping over the mountains, saw that the hill of copper had been robbed of its treasure, that the prison-house of the Sampo was empty.
Who acts: frost spirit, prison house, hill · What happens: peep, see, rob, be, treasure · To what, where: hill · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (frost spirit, prison house, hill), 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 spirit | det |
| 2 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spirit | compound |
| 3 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 peeping | punct |
| 5 | peeping | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 spirit | acl |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 mountains | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mountains | det |
| 8 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 peeping | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 spirit | punct |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 robbed | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hill | det |
| 13 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 robbed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 copper | case |
| 15 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hill | nmod |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 robbed | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 robbed | aux:pass |
| 18 | robbed | rob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 saw | ccomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 treasure | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 21 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 robbed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 empty | punct |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 empty | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 house | det |
| 25 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 house | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 prison | punct |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 empty | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Sampo | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Sampo | det |
| 30 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 house | nmod |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 empty | cop |
| 32 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 robbed | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peep | gerund | the frost spirit not said here | over the mountains | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over mountain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the frost spirit | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | rob | past · perfect · passive | the hill of copper | of hill's treasure | vn rob-10.6.4 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme of treasure=Source | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the prison house of the Sampo | empty property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | treasure | hill | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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