--- title: Makoma, after placing him in his sack, proceeded upon his journey, a… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Makoma, after placing him in his sack, proceeded upon his journey, and travelling for many days he at last reached a country so barren and rocky that not a single living thing grew upon it--everywhere reigned grim desolation. Who acts: Makoma, single living thing. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Makoma, single living thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3027:1:83 # text = Makoma, after placing him in his sack, proceeded upon his journey, and travelling for many days he at last reached a country so barren and rocky that not a single living thing grew upon it--everywhere reigned grim desolation. 1 Makoma Makoma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 after after SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 4 placing place VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 acl _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 sack sack NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 10 proceeded proceed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 upon upon ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 16 travelling travel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 obl _ _ 23 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 barren barren ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 rocky rocky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 37 upon upon ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 -- -- PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 everywhere everywhere ADV RB PronType=Tot 41 advmod _ _ 41 reigned reign VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 conj _ _ 42 grim grim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 desolation desolation NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **place** | gerund | Makoma *not said here* | Makoma | | Makoma's sack | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in sack=Destination | | 2 | **proceed** | past | Makoma | | | | | upon Makoma's journey | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **travel** | gerund | Makoma | | | last | day | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Trajectory | | 4 | **reach** | past | Makoma *not said here* | a country | | | | barren *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent country=Theme | | 5 | **grow** | past | a single living thing | | | breath | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Location | | 6 | **reign** | participle | a single living thing *not said here* | grim desolation | | | | everywhere *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **journey** | | Makoma | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/1/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/1/84/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/1/)