The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 15
The middle one scattered white milk on the wooded hills and the stony mountains.
What happens: wood · To what, where: scattered white 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 | 3 one | det |
| 2 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 milk | nsubj |
| 4 | scattered | scatter | ADJ | _ | 6 milk | amod |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 milk | amod |
| 6 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 hills | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hills | det |
| 9 | wooded | wood | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 hills | amod |
| 10 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 milk | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 mountains | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mountains | det |
| 13 | stony | stony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mountains | amod |
| 14 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hills | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 milk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wood | participle | 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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