The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 59
Ilmarinen groaned and pulled his cap still lower over his eyebrows; but he answered not a word.
Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: groan, pull, not answer · To what, where: cap, word
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 (Ilmarinen), 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 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 groaned | nsubj |
| 2 | groaned | groan | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 pulled | cc |
| 4 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 groaned | conj |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cap | nmod:poss |
| 6 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pulled | obj |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 lower | advmod |
| 8 | lower | low | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 pulled | advmod |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 eyebrows | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyebrows | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyebrows | eyebrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lower | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 answered | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 answered | nsubj |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 groaned | parataxis |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 answered | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 word | det |
| 18 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 answered | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 groaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | groan | past | Ilmarinen | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pull | past | Ilmarinen not said here | Ilmarinen's cap | still | low property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme | ||
| 3 | not answer speech: assert | past | Ilmarinen | a word | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality |
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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