The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 44
The gates were open and unguarded, and he ran out into the fields, into the vast unknown beyond.
Who acts: gates, heart · What happens: be, run out · To what, where: fields
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 (gates, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gates | det |
| 2 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 open | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 open | cop |
| 4 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 unguarded | cc |
| 6 | unguarded | unguarded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 open | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ran | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ran | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ran | nsubj |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 open | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 ran | compound:prt |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 fields | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fields | det |
| 14 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ran | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 beyond | punct |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 beyond | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 beyond | det |
| 18 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 beyond | amod |
| 19 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 beyond | amod |
| 20 | beyond | beyond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ran | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the gates | open property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the gates not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | run out | past | heart | into the fields result; the vast unknown beyond parataxis | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into field=Result |
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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