The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 117

He paused not a moment, he took no care to tie his little vessel to the mooring-post, but with eager, impatient feet he hastened towards the village.

Who acts: last · What happens: not pause, take, tie, hasten · To what, where: care, little vessel, village

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 paused	nsubj
2	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 paused	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 moment	det
5	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paused	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 took	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 took	nsubj
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 paused	conj
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 care	det
10	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 tie	mark
12	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 took	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 vessel	nmod:poss
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 vessel	amod
15	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tie	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	20 post	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 post	det
18	mooring	mooring	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 post	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 mooring	punct
20	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tie	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hastened	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 hastened	cc
23	with	with	ADP	_	27 feet	case
24	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 feet	amod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 eager	punct
26	impatient	impatient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 feet	amod
27	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hastened	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 hastened	nsubj
29	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 paused	conj
30	towards	towards	ADP	_	32 village	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 village	det
32	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hastened	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 paused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pause	past	last			moment		vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	last	no care				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
3	tie	to-infinitive	last not said here	last's little vessel			to the mooring post	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent vessel=Patient to post=Co-Patient
4	hasten	past	last		the village		with eager impatient feet	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards village=Destination

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/12/117/

🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 117

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 117