The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 52
The seven stars of the Great Bear also heard; and they came circling from the sky and began to dance and play amid the leaves and blossoms.
Who acts: seven stars, stars · What happens: hear, come, circle, begin, dance, play · To what, where: sky, amid
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 (seven stars, 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 | 3 stars | det |
| 2 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 stars | nummod |
| 3 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Bear | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Bear | det |
| 6 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Bear | amod |
| 7 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stars | nmod |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 heard | advmod |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | conj |
| 14 | circling | circle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 came | xcomp |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 sky | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sky | det |
| 17 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 circling | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 began | cc |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 dance | mark |
| 21 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 began | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 play | cc |
| 23 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 dance | conj |
| 24 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 play | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 leaves | det |
| 26 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 amid | appos |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 blossoms | cc |
| 28 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 leaves | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the seven stars of the Great Bear | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | come | past | stars = star | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | circle | gerund | stars = star not said here | the sky | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | stars = star not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | dance | to-infinitive | stars = star not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | play | infinitive | stars = star not said here | amid | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amid=Theme |
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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