The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 86
The young man gathered many handfuls of slender twigs from the tree, and saw that on each twig was a tiny drop of dew.
Who acts: young man · What happens: gather, see, be · To what, where: many handfuls, tiny drop, twig
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 (young man), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gathered | nsubj |
| 4 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 handfuls | amod |
| 6 | handfuls | handful | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gathered | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 twigs | case |
| 8 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 twigs | amod |
| 9 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 handfuls | nmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 twigs | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gathered | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 drop | mark |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 twig | case |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 twig | det |
| 19 | twig | twig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drop | obl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 drop | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 drop | det |
| 22 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 drop | amod |
| 23 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | xcomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 dew | case |
| 25 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drop | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | the young man | many handfuls of slender twigs from the tree | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the young man not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the young man not said here | a tiny drop | each twig | of dew | 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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