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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 3

There, on the slope of a barren mountain, the road divided into three paths, and at the end of each path he saw a small house with smoke rising from the chimney.

Who acts: road, smoke · What happens: divide, see, rise · To what, where: slope, small house, end, chimney

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 (road, smoke), 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

explpunctcasedetoblcasedetamodnmodpunctdetnsubjcasenummodoblpunctcccasedetoblcasedetnmodnsubjconjdetamodobjcasenmodaclcasedetoblpunctrootTherePRON,PUNCTonADPtheDETslopeNOUNofADPaDETbarrenADJmountainNOUN,PUNCTtheDETroadNOUNdividedVERBintoADPthreeNUMpathsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJatADPtheDETendNOUNofADPeachDETpathNOUNhePRONsawVERBaDETsmallADJhouseNOUNwithADPsmokeNOUNrisingVERBfromADPtheDETchimneyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheretherePRONPronType=Dem13 dividedexpl
2,,PUNCT_5 slopepunct
3ononADP_5 slopecase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 slopedet
5slopeslopeNOUNNumber=Sing13 dividedobl
6ofofADP_9 mountaincase
7aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art9 mountaindet
8barrenbarrenADJDegree=Pos9 mountainamod
9mountainmountainNOUNNumber=Sing5 slopenmod
10,,PUNCT_12 roadpunct
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 roaddet
12roadroadNOUNNumber=Sing13 dividednsubj
13divideddivideVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
14intointoADP_16 pathscase
15threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card16 pathsnummod
16pathspathNOUNNumber=Plur13 dividedobl
17,,PUNCT_26 sawpunct
18andandCCONJ_26 sawcc
19atatADP_21 endcase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 enddet
21endendNOUNNumber=Sing26 sawobl
22ofofADP_24 pathcase
23eacheachDETPronType=Tot24 pathdet
24pathpathNOUNNumber=Sing21 endnmod
25hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 sawnsubj
26sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 dividedconj
27aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art29 housedet
28smallsmallADJDegree=Pos29 houseamod
29househouseNOUNNumber=Sing26 sawobj
30withwithADP_31 smokecase
31smokesmokeNOUNNumber=Sing29 housenmod
32risingriseVERBVerbForm=Ger31 smokeacl
33fromfromADP_35 chimneycase
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 chimneydet
35chimneychimneyNOUNNumber=Sing32 risingobl
36..PUNCT_13 dividedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1dividepastthe roadthe slope of a barren mountain; thereinto three pathsvn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2seepastroada small houseat the end of each pathwith smokevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus
3risegerundsmoke not said herethe chimneyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from chimney=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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