The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 50
The trees swayed back and forth as though rocked by the fiercest of storms, yet there was silence everywhere.
Who acts: trees, silence · What happens: sway, rock, be
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 (trees, silence), 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 trees | det |
| 2 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 swayed | nsubj |
| 3 | swayed | sway | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 swayed | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 forth | cc |
| 6 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 back | conj |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 rocked | advmod |
| 8 | though | though | ADV | _ | 9 rocked | advmod |
| 9 | rocked | rock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 swayed | advcl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 fiercest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fiercest | det |
| 12 | fiercest | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 rocked | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 storms | case |
| 14 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fiercest | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 was | punct |
| 16 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 18 was | cc |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 was | expl |
| 18 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swayed | parataxis |
| 19 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 was | nsubj |
| 20 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 was | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sway | past | the trees | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rock | participle | the trees not said here | by the fiercest of storms; though property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by fierce=Location | ||||
| 3 | be | past | silence | there | everywhere property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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