The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 107
The white moon sits on one of its branches; and the seven stars of the Great Bear play hide-and-seek among its leaves and blossoms.
Who acts: white moon · What happens: sit, seek · To what, where: seven stars, leaves
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 (white 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 | 3 moon | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 moon | amod |
| 3 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sits | nsubj |
| 4 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 one | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 sits | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 branches | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 branches | nmod:poss |
| 9 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 stars | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stars | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stars | det |
| 13 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 stars | nummod |
| 14 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sits | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 hide | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hide | det |
| 17 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hide | amod |
| 18 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 play | compound |
| 19 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hide | compound |
| 20 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stars | nmod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 seek | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 seek | cc |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 and | punct |
| 24 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 hide | conj |
| 25 | among | among | ADP | _ | 27 leaves | case |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 27 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 seek | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 blossoms | cc |
| 29 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 leaves | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | the white moon | the seven stars of the Great play hide | on one of moon's branches | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on one=Location | |||
| 2 | seek | infinitive | the white moon not said here | moon's leaves and blossoms | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent among leaf=Location |
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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