The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 18
The Minstrel from his sledge could see the smithy from which the music came—a long, low building of logs in the very centre of the grove.
Who acts: Minstrel, music · What happens: see, come · To what, where: smithy
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, music), 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 | 2 Minstrel | det |
| 2 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 see | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 sledge | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sledge | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Minstrel | nmod |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 smithy | det |
| 9 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 came | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 music | det |
| 13 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 smithy | acl:relcl |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 building | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 building | det |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 building | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 long | punct |
| 19 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 building | amod |
| 20 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 logs | case |
| 22 | logs | log | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 building | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 centre | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 centre | det |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 centre | advmod |
| 26 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 building | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 grove | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 grove | det |
| 29 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 centre | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | the Minstrel from Minstrel's sledge | the smithy | a long low building of logs in the centre of the grove obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smithy=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | come | past | the music | the smithy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial_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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