The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 89
Very impatiently the hero waited through the short hours of night, and gladly did he hail the first gray streak of dawn that heralded the morning.
Who acts: hero, heart, first gray streak · What happens: wait, hail, herald · To what, where: first gray streak
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 (hero, heart, first gray streak), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 impatiently | advmod |
| 2 | impatiently | impatiently | ADV | _ | 5 waited | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hero | det |
| 4 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waited | nsubj |
| 5 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 hours | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hours | det |
| 8 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hours | amod |
| 9 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 waited | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hours | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hail | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hail | cc |
| 14 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 17 hail | advmod |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 hail | aux |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hail | nsubj |
| 17 | hail | hail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 waited | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 streak | det |
| 19 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 streak | amod |
| 20 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 streak | amod |
| 21 | streak | streak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hail | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 dawn | case |
| 23 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 streak | nmod |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 heralded | nsubj |
| 25 | heralded | herald | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 streak | acl:relcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 morning | det |
| 27 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 heralded | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | the hero | hour | impatiently property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | hail | past · do-support | heart | the first gray streak of dawn | gladly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent streak=Theme | |||
| 3 | herald | past | the first gray streak of dawn | morning | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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