The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 47
There, for three months—yes, for four long and dismal months—I was forced to tarry.
Who acts: four long months · What happens: force, tarry · To what, where: four long months
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 (four long months), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 forced | expl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 months | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 months | case |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 months | nummod |
| 5 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 forced | obl |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 months | punct |
| 7 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 14 months | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 months | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 months | case |
| 10 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 months | nummod |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 months | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dismal | cc |
| 13 | dismal | dismal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 long | conj |
| 14 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 forced | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 forced | aux:pass |
| 18 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 tarry | mark |
| 20 | tarry | tarry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 forced | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 forced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force | past · passive | four long months | there | month | I nsubj:pass | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||
| 2 | tarry | to-infinitive | four long months not said here | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
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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