The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 53
Seven pails he brought, then eight, and all were filled to overflowing.
Who acts: Seven pails · What happens: bring, fill, overflow · To what, where: eight, all
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 (Seven pails), 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 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 pails | nummod |
| 2 | pails | pail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 eight | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 eight | advmod |
| 7 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 brought | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 filled | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 filled | cc |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 filled | aux:pass |
| 12 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 brought | conj |
| 13 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 14 overflowing | mark |
| 14 | overflowing | overflow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 filled | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | Seven pails | eight | son nsubj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | fill | past · passive | all | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | overflow | gerund | tree rules |
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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