The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 3
Down to the river-side she went, nor did she pause or slacken her speed until she came to a sudden turn in the shore where a huge ledge of rock jutted far out into the stream.
Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: go, pause, slacken, come, jut · To what, where: river side, speed, sudden turn, huge ledge, stream
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 (Minstrel), 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 | Down | down | ADV | _ | 6 side | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 side | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 side | det |
| 4 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 side | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 river | punct |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pause | punct |
| 10 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 pause | cc |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 pause | aux |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 pause | nsubj |
| 13 | pause | pause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 went | parataxis |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 slacken | cc |
| 15 | slacken | slacken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 pause | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 speed | nmod:poss |
| 17 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slacken | obj |
| 18 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 20 came | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 slacken | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 turn | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 turn | det |
| 23 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 turn | amod |
| 24 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 shore | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 shore | det |
| 27 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 turn | nmod |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 jutted | advmod |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 ledge | det |
| 30 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 ledge | amod |
| 31 | ledge | ledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 jutted | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 rock | case |
| 33 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ledge | nmod |
| 34 | jutted | jut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 shore | acl:relcl |
| 35 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 out | advmod |
| 36 | out | out | ADV | _ | 34 jutted | advmod |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 stream | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 stream | det |
| 39 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 jutted | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Minstrel | the river side | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to side=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | pause | past · do-support | Minstrel | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | slacken | infinitive | Minstrel not said here | Minstrel's speed | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent speed=Patient | ||||
| 4 | come | past | Minstrel | a sudden turn in the shore | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to turn=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | jut | participle · passive | a huge ledge of rock | the stream | out property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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