The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 51
The white-faced moon heard, and sat herself down among the branches of the tree of magic.
Who acts: faced moon · What happens: hear, sit down · To what, where: Ilmarinen
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 (faced moon), 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 | 5 moon | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 faced | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 white | punct |
| 4 | faced | faced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 moon | amod |
| 5 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sat | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sat | cc |
| 9 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | conj |
| 10 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 sat | obj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 sat | compound:prt |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 14 branches | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 branches | det |
| 14 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sat | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 tree | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 branches | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 magic | case |
| 19 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tree | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the faced moon | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | sit down | past | the faced moon not said here | Ilmarinen | among the branches of the tree of magic | 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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