The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 61
Behind it the water boiled as beneath a mighty cataract.
What happens: boil · To what, where: water
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: 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 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 2 it | case |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 water | nmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 water | det |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | boiled | boil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 water | acl |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 cataract | case |
| 7 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 10 cataract | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cataract | det |
| 9 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cataract | amod |
| 10 | cataract | cataract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boiled | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 water | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil | participle | the water behind ship not said here | as a mighty cataract | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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