The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 23
But when he climbed a mountain to see his second brother he had quite another reception.
Who acts: Water · What happens: climb, see, have · To what, where: mountain, second brother, reception
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: who acts (Water), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 climbed | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 climbed | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 climbed | nsubj |
| 4 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mountain | det |
| 6 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 climbed | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 climbed | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 brother | amod |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 climbed | parataxis |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 reception | advmod |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 reception | det |
| 16 | reception | reception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | Water | a mountain | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mountain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Water not said here | Water's second brother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Water | another reception | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reception=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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