The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 30
The unwonted sound of a human voice rolled thunderously across the river, stirring the sluggish stream to its very depths; it awakened the echoes in the distant colorless hills of Tuonela, and with deafening roar broke the silence of ages.
Who acts: unwonted sound, sound · What happens: roll, stir, awaken, break, silence · To what, where: river, sluggish stream, echoes, distant colorless hills, silence, ages
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unwonted sound, sound), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sound | det |
| 2 | unwonted | unwonted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sound | amod |
| 3 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rolled | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 voice | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 voice | det |
| 6 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 voice | amod |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sound | nmod |
| 8 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | thunderously | thunderously | ADV | _ | 8 rolled | advmod |
| 10 | across | across | ADP | _ | 12 river | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rolled | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stirring | punct |
| 14 | stirring | stir | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 rolled | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stream | det |
| 16 | sluggish | sluggish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stream | amod |
| 17 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stirring | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 depths | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 depths | nmod:poss |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 depths | advmod |
| 21 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stirring | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 awakened | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 awakened | nsubj |
| 24 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rolled | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 echoes | det |
| 26 | echoes | echo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 awakened | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 hills | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 hills | det |
| 29 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 hills | amod |
| 30 | colorless | colorless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 hills | amod |
| 31 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 awakened | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Tuonela | case |
| 33 | Tuonela | Tuonela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 hills | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 broke | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 broke | cc |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 roar | case |
| 37 | deafening | deafening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 roar | compound |
| 38 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 broke | obl |
| 39 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 awakened | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 silence | det |
| 41 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 broke | obj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 ages | case |
| 43 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 silence | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | past | the unwonted sound of a human voice | the river | thunderously property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across river=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | stir | gerund | the unwonted sound of a human voice not said here | the sluggish stream | to sound's depths | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent stream=Patient to depth=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | awaken | past | sound | the echoes | the distant colorless hills of Tuonela | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location echo=Theme | |||
| 4 | break | past | sound not said here | the silence of ages | with deafening roar | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent silence=Patient with roar=Instrument | |||
| 5 | silence | ages | nom silence «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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