The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 43
Then suddenly and with great effort he leaped to his feet and fled from Tuoni’s hall.
Who acts: heart · What happens: leap, flee · To what, where: feet, hall
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 (heart), 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 | 2 suddenly | advmod |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 8 leaped | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 effort | cc |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 effort | case |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 effort | amod |
| 6 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 suddenly | conj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 leaped | nsubj |
| 8 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 feet | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 feet | nmod:poss |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 leaped | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fled | cc |
| 13 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 leaped | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 hall | case |
| 15 | Tuoni | Tuoni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 hall | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Tuoni | case |
| 17 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fled | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | past | heart | heart's feet | then | suddenly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination | ||
| 2 | flee | past | heart not said here | Tuoni's hall | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hall=Initial_Location |
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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