The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 44
“It is not a cloud but an island—a small island looming up on the horizon.
Who acts: patience, small island · What happens: not be, loom up · To what, where: cloud, horizon
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 (patience, small island), 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 cloud | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cloud | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cloud | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 cloud | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cloud | det |
| 6 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 island | cc |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 island | det |
| 9 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cloud | conj |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 island | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 island | det |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 island | amod |
| 13 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cloud | conj |
| 14 | looming | loom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 island | acl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 looming | compound:prt |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 horizon | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 horizon | det |
| 18 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looming | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cloud | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | patience | a cloud but a island and a small island | a island conj; a small island conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | loom up in a quote | gerund | a small island not said here | the horizon | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horizon=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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