The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 24
Then, without deigning to speak another word, she resumed her spinning.
Who acts: doom · What happens: deign, speak, resume, spin · To what, where: word, spinning · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hag of the Rock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doom), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 resumed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 4 deigning | mark |
| 4 | deigning | deign | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 resumed | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 speak | mark |
| 6 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 deigning | xcomp |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 word | det |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 speak | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 deigning | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 resumed | nsubj |
| 11 | resumed | resume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 spinning | nmod:poss |
| 13 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 resumed | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 resumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deign | gerund | doom not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | doom not said here | another word | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | resume | past | doom | doom's spinning | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spinning=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | spin | doom | nom spinning «act transitive»: poss=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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