The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 14
The eldest sprinkled red milk in the brooks and marshes and along the banks of the rivers.
What happens: sprinkle · To what, where: eldest sprinkled red milk
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 5 milk | det |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 milk | amod |
| 3 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 milk | amod |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 milk | amod |
| 5 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 brooks | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 brooks | det |
| 8 | brooks | brook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 milk | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 marshes | cc |
| 10 | marshes | marsh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 brooks | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 banks | cc |
| 12 | along | along | ADP | _ | 14 banks | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 banks | det |
| 14 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 brooks | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 rivers | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rivers | det |
| 17 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 banks | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 milk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sprinkle | participle | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
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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