The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 16
Of the long rudder she fashioned a tail, flat and broad, with quill-like feathers overlapping each other as do the boards on the roof of a house.
Who acts: like feathers, other as · What happens: overlap, do · To what, where: boards, roof
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (like feathers, other as), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 rudder | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rudder | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rudder | amod |
| 4 | rudder | rudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fashioned | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fashioned | nsubj |
| 6 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tail | det |
| 8 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fashioned | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 flat | punct |
| 10 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fashioned | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 broad | cc |
| 12 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fashioned | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 feathers | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 feathers | case |
| 15 | quill | quill | NOUN | _ | 17 like | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 quill | punct |
| 17 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 feathers | amod |
| 18 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fashioned | parataxis |
| 19 | overlapping | overlap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 feathers | acl |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 as | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 as | amod |
| 22 | as | a | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 do | nsubj |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 overlapping | ccomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 boards | det |
| 25 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 do | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 roof | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 roof | det |
| 28 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 boards | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 house | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 house | det |
| 31 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 roof | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fashioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overlap | gerund | like feathers not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | present | each other as | the boards | the roof of a house | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent board=Eventuality |
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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