The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 35
Where the paws of bears had plodded often, where the feet of wolves had pattered, where the sharp hoofs of deer had trodden, there the timid metal, red, gray, yellow, black, peeped shyly out.
Who acts: timid metal · What happens: plod, patter, tread, peep · To what, where: paws, feet, sharp hoofs
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 (timid metal), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 plodded | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 paws | det |
| 3 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 plodded | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 bears | case |
| 5 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 paws | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 plodded | aux |
| 7 | plodded | plod | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 plodded | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pattered | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 pattered | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 feet | det |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pattered | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wolves | case |
| 14 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 feet | nmod |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 pattered | aux |
| 16 | pattered | patter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 plodded | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 trodden | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 trodden | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hoofs | det |
| 20 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hoofs | amod |
| 21 | hoofs | hoof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 trodden | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 deer | case |
| 23 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hoofs | nmod |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 trodden | aux |
| 25 | trodden | tread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 pattered | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 peeped | punct |
| 27 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 40 peeped | expl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 metal | det |
| 29 | timid | timid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 metal | amod |
| 30 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 peeped | nsubj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 red | punct |
| 32 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 metal | appos |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 gray | punct |
| 34 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 red | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 yellow | punct |
| 36 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 red | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 black | punct |
| 38 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 red | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 metal | punct |
| 40 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 plodded | conj |
| 41 | shyly | shyly | ADV | _ | 42 out | advmod |
| 42 | out | out | ADV | _ | 40 peeped | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 plodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plod | past · perfect · passive | the paws of bears | often property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | patter | past · perfect · passive | the feet of wolves | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tread | past · perfect · passive | the sharp hoofs of deer | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | peep | past | the timid metal | there | out property | vn animal_sounds-38 «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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