The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 102
Its two halves gaped wide apart; its torn and broken branches hung dangling in the wind.
Who acts: two halves · What happens: gape, tear, break, hang, dangle · To what, where: torn branches, wind
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 (two halves), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 halves | nmod:poss |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 halves | nummod |
| 3 | halves | half | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gaped | nsubj |
| 4 | gaped | gape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 6 apart | advmod |
| 6 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 4 gaped | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 hung | punct |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 branches | nmod:poss |
| 9 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 branches | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 broken | cc |
| 11 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 torn | conj |
| 12 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hung | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gaped | conj |
| 14 | dangling | dangle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 hung | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 wind | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wind | det |
| 17 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dangling | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gape | participle | crown's two halves | apart property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tear | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | hang | participle · passive | crown's torn branches | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | dangle | gerund | the wind | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=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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