The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 14
It was the call of a human voice; but by whom was it uttered?
Who acts: call · What happens: be, utter · To what, where: call
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 (call), 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 | 4 call | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 call | det |
| 4 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 voice | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 voice | det |
| 7 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 voice | amod |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 call | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 uttered | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 uttered | cc |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 whom | case |
| 12 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 uttered | obl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 uttered | aux:pass |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 uttered | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 call | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | call | the call | of a human voice | tree rules | |||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past · passive | the call | call | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
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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