The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 31
For ages and ages—nobody knows how many—Iron lay hidden in bogs and forests and lonely caverns.
Who acts: nobody, Iron · What happens: know, lie, hide · To what, where: many, bogs
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 (nobody, Iron), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 ages | case |
| 2 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 knows | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ages | cc |
| 4 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ages | conj |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 ages | punct |
| 6 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 knows | nsubj |
| 7 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 many | advmod |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 knows | obj |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 lay | punct |
| 11 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | nsubj |
| 12 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 knows | parataxis |
| 13 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 lay | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 bogs | case |
| 15 | bogs | bog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hidden | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 forests | cc |
| 17 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bogs | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 caverns | cc |
| 19 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 caverns | amod |
| 20 | caverns | cavern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bogs | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | nobody | many | for ages and ages | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer many=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | lie | past | Iron | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hide | participle | Iron not said here | bogs and forests and lonely caverns | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bog=Location |
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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