The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 139
So, for nine days—yes, for ten days of terror—he went stalking hither and thither through the woodlands and the meadows and the boggy thickets, shooting every timid creature that his eyes could see.
Who acts: nine days, eyes · What happens: go, stalk, shoot, see · To what, where: woodlands, timid creature
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nine days, eyes), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 days | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 days | case |
| 4 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 days | nummod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 went | nsubj |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 days | punct |
| 7 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 11 days | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 days | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 days | case |
| 10 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 days | nummod |
| 11 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 days | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 terror | case |
| 13 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 days | nmod |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | stalking | stalk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 went | xcomp |
| 18 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 17 stalking | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 thither | cc |
| 20 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 18 hither | conj |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 woodlands | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 woodlands | det |
| 23 | woodlands | woodland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 stalking | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 meadows | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 meadows | det |
| 26 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 woodlands | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 thickets | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 thickets | det |
| 29 | boggy | boggy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 thickets | amod |
| 30 | thickets | thicket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 woodlands | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 shooting | punct |
| 32 | shooting | shoot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 went | advcl |
| 33 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 creature | det |
| 34 | timid | timid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 creature | amod |
| 35 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 shooting | obj |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 see | obj |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 38 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 see | nsubj |
| 39 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 see | aux |
| 40 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 creature | acl:relcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | nine days and ten days of terror | task nsubj | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stalk | gerund | nine days and ten days of terror not said here | the woodlands and the meadows and the boggy thickets; thither | hither property | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent through woodland=Location | |||
| 3 | shoot | gerund | nine days and ten days of terror not said here | every timid creature | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | could | task's eyes | every timid creature | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
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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