The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 51
The Minstrel could not hear his own footfalls as he ran blindly, aimlessly, among traps and snares, and through a wilderness of perils.
Who acts: Minstrel, silence · What happens: not hear, run · To what, where: own footfalls
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, 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 Minstrel | det |
| 2 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hear | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 hear | advmod |
| 5 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 footfalls | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 footfalls | amod |
| 8 | footfalls | footfall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hear | obj |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 ran | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ran | nsubj |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hear | advcl |
| 12 | blindly | blindly | ADV | _ | 11 ran | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 aimlessly | punct |
| 14 | aimlessly | aimlessly | ADV | _ | 5 hear | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 traps | punct |
| 16 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 traps | case |
| 17 | traps | trap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hear | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 snares | cc |
| 19 | snares | snare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 traps | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wilderness | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wilderness | cc |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 wilderness | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 wilderness | det |
| 24 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 traps | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 perils | case |
| 26 | perils | peril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 wilderness | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | could | the Minstrel | silence's own footfalls | traps and snares and a wilderness of perils parataxis; aimlessly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer footfall=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | run | past | silence | blindly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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