The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 16
The youngest showered blue milk in the valleys and by the gray seashore.
What happens: shower · To what, where: youngest showered blue 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 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 milk | amod |
| 3 | showered | shower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 milk | amod |
| 4 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 milk | amod |
| 5 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 valleys | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 valleys | det |
| 8 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 milk | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 seashore | cc |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 seashore | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 seashore | det |
| 12 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seashore | compound |
| 13 | seashore | seashore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 valleys | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 milk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shower | participle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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