The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 47
It grew and grew until it became a flower-crowned tree which seemed to pierce the clouds and sweep the solemn sky.
Who acts: twig, crowned tree · What happens: grow, become, crown, seem, pierce, sweep · To what, where: crowned tree, clouds, solemn sky
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 (twig, crowned tree), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 grew | cc |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 grew | conj |
| 5 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 7 became | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 became | nsubj |
| 7 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 9 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crowned | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 flower | punct |
| 11 | crowned | crown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 tree | amod |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 became | xcomp |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 seemed | nsubj |
| 14 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 tree | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 pierce | mark |
| 16 | pierce | pierce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 seemed | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 clouds | det |
| 18 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pierce | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sweep | cc |
| 20 | sweep | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 pierce | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sky | det |
| 22 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sky | amod |
| 23 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sweep | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | twig | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | twig not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | become | past | twig | a crowned tree | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | crown | participle | flower compound | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | seem | past | a crowned tree | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | pierce | to-infinitive | a crowned tree not said here | the clouds | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Patient | ||||
| 7 | sweep | present | a crowned tree not said here | the solemn sky | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sky=Trajectory |
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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