The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 103
Indeed, I passed by the end of the causeway yesterday, and I saw only whispering pines and dwarf oaks and a few stunted poplars.”
Who acts: I · What happens: pass, see, stunt · To what, where: whispering pines
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 (I), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 passed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 end | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 end | det |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 yesterday | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 yesterday | det |
| 10 | causeway | causeway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 yesterday | compound |
| 11 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 end | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | conj |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 pines | advmod |
| 17 | whispering | whispering | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pines | amod |
| 18 | pines | pine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 saw | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 oaks | cc |
| 20 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 oaks | amod |
| 21 | oaks | oak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 pines | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 poplars | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 poplars | det |
| 24 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 poplars | amod |
| 25 | stunted | stunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 poplars | amod |
| 26 | poplars | poplar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 pines | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | I | by the end of the causeway yesterday | indeed property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by end=Location | |||
| 2 | see | past | I | whispering pines and dwarf oaks and a few stunted poplars | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pine=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | stunt | participle | 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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