The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 148
The wound was healed, the ugly gash had disappeared, every trace of pain had vanished from his body.
Who acts: ugly gash, trace · What happens: heal, disappear, vanish · To what, where: wound, body
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 (ugly gash, trace), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wound | det |
| 2 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 healed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 healed | aux:pass |
| 4 | healed | heal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 disappeared | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gash | det |
| 7 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gash | amod |
| 8 | gash | gash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 disappeared | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 disappeared | aux |
| 10 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 healed | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 vanished | punct |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 trace | det |
| 13 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 vanished | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 pain | case |
| 15 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trace | nmod |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 vanished | aux |
| 17 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 healed | conj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 body | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 body | nmod:poss |
| 20 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 vanished | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 healed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heal | past · passive | the wound | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | disappear | past · perfect | the ugly gash | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | vanish | past · perfect | every trace of pain | pain's body | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from body=Initial_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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