The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Opening, sentence 25

Then, at length, when all were peacefully feeding, he sat down upon a grassy hummock and looked around him, sad, lonely, vindictive.

Who acts: all, BOY · What happens: feed, sit down, look · To what, where: length

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, BOY), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 sat	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 length	case
4	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 feeding	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 feeding	advmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 feeding	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 feeding	aux
9	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	_	10 feeding	advmod
10	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 length	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 length	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sat	nsubj
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 sat	compound:prt
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 hummock	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hummock	det
17	grassy	grassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hummock	amod
18	hummock	hummock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 looked	cc
20	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sat	conj
21	around	around	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 looked	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sad	punct
24	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sat	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lonely	punct
26	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sad	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 vindictive	punct
28	vindictive	vindictive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sad	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past · progressive	all			peacefully property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	sit down	past	BOY	length	then	upon a grassy hummock	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at length=Location
3	look	past	BOY not said here			around BOY	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around he=Theme

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Opening, sentence 25

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Opening, sentence 25