The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 25
Here was the forest road which he had often travelled in his youth and later manhood.
Who acts: forest road · What happens: be, travell · To what, where: forest road, youth
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tree of Magic. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forest road), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 road | det |
| 4 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 road | compound |
| 5 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 travelled | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 travelled | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 travelled | aux |
| 9 | often | often | ADV | _ | 10 travelled | advmod |
| 10 | travelled | travell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 road | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 youth | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 youth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 travelled | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 manhood | cc |
| 15 | later | late | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 manhood | amod |
| 16 | manhood | manhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 youth | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the forest road | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | travell | past · perfect · passive | the forest road | Minstrel's youth and later manhood | Minstrel nsubj; often property | 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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