The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 45
Terror pursued him, and new horrors came into view at every moment of his flight.
Who acts: Terror, new horrors · What happens: pursue, come · To what, where: heart, view
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 (Terror, new horrors), 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 | Terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pursued | nsubj |
| 2 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pursued | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 horrors | amod |
| 7 | horrors | horror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pursued | conj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 view | case |
| 10 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 moment | case |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 moment | det |
| 13 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 flight | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 flight | nmod:poss |
| 16 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 moment | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pursued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue | past | Terror | heart | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | new horrors | view | moment | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into view=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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