The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 46
His friendly neighbors saw how sadly the memory of his journey distressed him, and they asked no more questions.
Who acts: friendly neighbors, memory, neighbor, strength · What happens: see, distress, ask, journey · To what, where: strength, more questions
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 (friendly neighbors, memory, neighbor, strength), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 neighbors | amod |
| 3 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 sadly | advmod |
| 6 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 12 distressed | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 memory | det |
| 8 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 distressed | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 journey | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 journey | nmod:poss |
| 11 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 memory | nmod |
| 12 | distressed | distress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 distressed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 asked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 asked | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 asked | nsubj |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 18 | no | no | ADV | _ | 20 questions | advmod |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 questions | amod |
| 20 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 asked | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | strength's friendly neighbors | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | distress | past | the memory of strength's journey | strength | sadly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | neighbor | more questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | journey | strength | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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