The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 96
On the tenth day he looked into the pot and saw that all was of a rich golden color, bright and sparkling, with pretty rainbows mingled here and there in many a curious pattern.
Who acts: youth, all, pretty rainbows · What happens: look, see, be, sparkle, mingle · To what, where: curious pattern
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 (youth, all, pretty rainbows), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | tenth | tenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 pot | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pot | det |
| 9 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looked | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 color | mark |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 color | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 color | cop |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 color | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 color | det |
| 17 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 color | amod |
| 18 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 color | amod |
| 19 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bright | punct |
| 21 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 color | amod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sparkling | cc |
| 23 | sparkling | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 bright | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 mingled | punct |
| 25 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 28 mingled | mark |
| 26 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 rainbows | amod |
| 27 | rainbows | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 mingled | nsubj |
| 28 | mingled | mingle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 saw | conj |
| 29 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 mingled | advmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 there | cc |
| 31 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 here | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 pattern | case |
| 33 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 pattern | nsubj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 pattern | det |
| 35 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 pattern | amod |
| 36 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mingled | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | youth | day | into the pot | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into pot=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | youth not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | all | of a rich golden color | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sparkle | gerund | all not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | mingle | past | pretty rainbows | a curious pattern; here; there | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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