The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 11
Then all his listeners, wise men, herdsmen, fishermen, wild men, looked at him with awe and admiration.
Who acts: listeners · What happens: look
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (listeners), 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 | 16 looked | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 listeners | det:predet |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 listeners | nmod:poss |
| 4 | listeners | listener | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 men | punct |
| 6 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 listeners | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 herdsmen | punct |
| 9 | herdsmen | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 men | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fishermen | punct |
| 11 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 men | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 men | punct |
| 13 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 men | amod |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 listeners | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 listeners | punct |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 looked | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 awe | case |
| 20 | awe | awe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looked | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 admiration | cc |
| 22 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 awe | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | thing's listeners and wild men | then | at thing; with awe and admiration | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at 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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