The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 101
Half-way down the mountain side there was a giant pine tree which the lightning had split from crown to roots.
Who acts: Half way · What happens: be, split · To what, where: giant pine tree, crown
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Graybeard and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Half way), 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 | Half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 3 way | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Half | punct |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tree | nsubj |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 side | det |
| 6 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 side | compound |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | obl |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 tree | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 11 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tree | amod |
| 12 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tree | compound |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 split | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lightning | det |
| 16 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 split | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 split | aux |
| 18 | split | split | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 tree | parataxis |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 crown | case |
| 20 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 split | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 roots | case |
| 22 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 split | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 tree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Half way | a giant pine tree | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | split | past · perfect · passive | a giant pine tree | crown | to roots result; the lightning nsubj:pass | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to root=Result |
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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