The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 3
The North Wind came hurtling over the sea, carrying the storm spirit in his arms.
Who acts: North Wind · What happens: come, hurtle, carry · To what, where: sea, storm spirit, arms
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 (North Wind), 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 | 3 Wind | det |
| 2 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Wind | compound |
| 3 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hurtling | hurtle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 came | advcl |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hurtling | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 carrying | punct |
| 10 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 hurtling | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 spirit | det |
| 12 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spirit | compound |
| 13 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carrying | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 arms | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 arms | nmod:poss |
| 16 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 carrying | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the North Wind | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hurtle | gerund | the North Wind not said here | the sea | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | the North Wind not said here | the storm spirit | Wind's arms | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent spirit=Value in arm=Location |
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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