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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 40

“Long ago, when the world was young, I found Iron, ruddy Iron, hiding in the bogs, skulking in the woods, basking in the sunlight of the hills.

Who acts: world, various · What happens: be, find, hide, skulk, bask · To what, where: Iron, bogs, woods, sunlight

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Recipe. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, various), 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

punctadvmodadvmodpunctadvmoddetnsubjcopconjpunctnsubjobjpunctamodconjpunctparataxiscasedetoblpunctconjcasedetoblpunctconjcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctroot“PUNCTLongADVagoADV,PUNCTwhenADVtheDETworldNOUNwasAUXyoungADJ,PUNCTIPRONfoundVERBIronPROPN,PUNCTruddyADJIronPROPN,PUNCThidingVERBinADPtheDETbogsNOUN,PUNCTskulkingVERBinADPtheDETwoodsNOUN,PUNCTbaskingVERBinADPtheDETsunlightNOUNofADPtheDEThillsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_12 foundpunct
2LonglongADVDegree=Pos3 agoadvmod
3agoagoADV_12 foundadvmod
4,,PUNCT_9 youngpunct
5whenwhenADVPronType=Int9 youngadvmod
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 worlddet
7worldworldNOUNNumber=Sing9 youngnsubj
8wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 youngcop
9youngyoungADJDegree=Pos3 agoconj
10,,PUNCT_3 agopunct
11IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs12 foundnsubj
12foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
13IronIronPROPNNumber=Sing12 foundobj
14,,PUNCT_16 Ironpunct
15ruddyruddyADJDegree=Pos16 Ironamod
16IronIronPROPNNumber=Sing13 Ironconj
17,,PUNCT_18 hidingpunct
18hidinghideVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part12 foundparataxis
19ininADP_21 bogscase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 bogsdet
21bogsbogNOUNNumber=Plur18 hidingobl
22,,PUNCT_23 skulkingpunct
23skulkingskulkVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part18 hidingconj
24ininADP_26 woodscase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 woodsdet
26woodswoodNOUNNumber=Plur23 skulkingobl
27,,PUNCT_28 baskingpunct
28baskingbaskVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part23 skulkingconj
29ininADP_31 sunlightcase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 sunlightdet
31sunlightsunlightNOUNNumber=Sing28 baskingobl
32ofofADP_34 hillscase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 hillsdet
34hillshillNOUNNumber=Plur31 sunlightnmod
35..PUNCT_12 foundpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is in a quotepastthe worldyoung propertytree rules
2find in a quotepastvariousIron and ruddy Ironago propertyvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=Topic
3hide in a quotegerundthe bogsvn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bog=Location
4skulk in a quotegerundthe woodsvn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Trajectory
5bask in a quotegerundthe sunlight of the hillsvn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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