The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 11
Men heard it and ran to their doors to look out and listen.
Who acts: Men · What happens: hear, run, look out, listen · 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: who acts (Men), 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 | Men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 heard | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ran | cc |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 doors | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 doors | nmod:poss |
| 8 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ran | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 look | mark |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ran | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 look | compound:prt |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 listen | cc |
| 13 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 look | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Men | cry | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | run | past | Men not said here | to Men's doors result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to door=Result | ||||
| 3 | look out | to-infinitive | Men not said here | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | listen | infinitive | Men not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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