The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 52
At length, however, his tongue was loosened in prayer; it moved in his mouth, but uttered not even a whisper.
Who acts: prayer · What happens: loosen, move, not utter · To what, where: tongue, length, mouth, whisper
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 (prayer), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 loosened | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 loosened | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 7 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 loosened | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 loosened | aux:pass |
| 9 | loosened | loosen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 prayer | case |
| 11 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 loosened | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 moved | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 moved | nsubj |
| 14 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 loosened | parataxis |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 mouth | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 moved | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 uttered | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 uttered | cc |
| 20 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 moved | conj |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 uttered | advmod |
| 22 | even | even | ADV | _ | 24 whisper | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 whisper | det |
| 24 | whisper | whisper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 uttered | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 loosened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | loosen | past · passive | silence's tongue | length | in prayer; however property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | move | past | prayer | silence's mouth | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in mouth=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | not utter speech: other | past | prayer not said here | a whisper | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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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