The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 116
Scarcely had he spoken when the heifer rushed out of the smithy, pausing not a moment to salute her master.
Who acts: heifer · What happens: speak, rush out, pause, salute · To what, where: Scarcely, smithy, master · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (heifer), 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 | Scarcely | Scarcely | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoken | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoken | nsubj |
| 4 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 rushed | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 heifer | det |
| 7 | heifer | heifer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rushed | nsubj |
| 8 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoken | parataxis |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 smithy | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 smithy | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 smithy | det |
| 12 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rushed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pausing | punct |
| 14 | pausing | pause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 rushed | advcl |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 moment | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 moment | det |
| 17 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pausing | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 salute | mark |
| 19 | salute | salute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 pausing | advcl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 master | nmod:poss |
| 21 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 salute | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · perfect · passive | Scarcely | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | rush out | past | the heifer | the smithy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme smithy=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | pause | gerund | the heifer not said here | moment | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | salute | to-infinitive | the heifer not said here | heifer's master | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Topic |
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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