The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 4
The stars of the Great Bear were still visible, twinkling dimly above the pine trees.
Who acts: stars · What happens: be, twinkle · To what, where: pine trees
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 (stars), 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 | 2 stars | det |
| 2 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 visible | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Bear | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Bear | det |
| 5 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Bear | amod |
| 6 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stars | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 visible | cop |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 visible | advmod |
| 9 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 twinkling | punct |
| 11 | twinkling | twinkle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 visible | advcl |
| 12 | dimly | dimly | ADV | _ | 11 twinkling | advmod |
| 13 | above | above | ADP | _ | 16 trees | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 trees | det |
| 15 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 trees | compound |
| 16 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 twinkling | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 visible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the stars of the Great Bear | still | visible property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | twinkle | gerund | the stars of the Great Bear not said here | the pine trees | dimly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above tree=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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