The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 1
As the Minstrel journeyed onward the road gradually became broader and there were more signs of travel.
Who acts: Minstrel, road, more signs · What happens: journey, become, be, sign · To what, where: travel
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel, road, more signs), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 journeyed | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Minstrel | det |
| 3 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 journeyed | nsubj |
| 4 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 became | advcl |
| 5 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 4 journeyed | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 road | det |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 became | nsubj |
| 8 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 9 became | advmod |
| 9 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | broader | broad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 became | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 were | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 were | expl |
| 13 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 became | conj |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 signs | amod |
| 15 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 were | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 travel | case |
| 17 | travel | travel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 signs | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past | the Minstrel | onward property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | past | the road | broad, gradually property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | be | past | more signs of travel | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sign | travel | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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