The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 6
He rose hurriedly and hastened to go out, not to listen to the varied sounds of the morning, but to ponder concerning the great problem that was soon to be solved.
Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: rise, hasten, go out, not listen, ponder, concern · To what, where: great problem
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rose | nsubj |
| 2 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hurriedly | hurriedly | ADV | _ | 2 rose | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hastened | cc |
| 5 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 rose | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hastened | xcomp |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 go | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 listen | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 listen | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 listen | mark |
| 12 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 go | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 sounds | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sounds | det |
| 15 | varied | varied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sounds | amod |
| 16 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 listen | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 morning | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 morning | det |
| 19 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sounds | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ponder | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 ponder | cc |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 ponder | mark |
| 23 | ponder | ponder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 rose | conj |
| 24 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 ponder | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 problem | det |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 problem | amod |
| 27 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 concerning | obj |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 solved | obj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 solved | aux:pass |
| 30 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 solved | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 solved | mark |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 solved | aux:pass |
| 33 | solved | solve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 problem | acl:relcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Ilmarinen | hurriedly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hasten | participle | Ilmarinen not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go out | to-infinitive | Ilmarinen not said here | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not listen | to-infinitive | Ilmarinen not said here | to the varied sounds of the morning | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to sound=Theme | ||||
| 5 | ponder | to-infinitive | Ilmarinen not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | concern | gerund | Ilmarinen not said here | the great problem | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus problem=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | solve | past · passive | Ilmarinen not said here | the great problem | soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: that=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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