The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 10
It was repeated again and again, each time a little nearer.
What happens: repeat · To what, where: cry
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hero’s Return. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 repeated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 repeated | aux:pass |
| 3 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 repeated | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 again | cc |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 again | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 time | punct |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 repeated | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 little | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 nearer | obl |
| 12 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 time | amod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | past · passive | cry | again; again; time | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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