The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 5
He roared on the hill-tops, and shrieked in the tree-tops, and threatened to overwhelm everything that stood in his way.
Who acts: Wind · What happens: roar, shriek, threaten, overwhelm, stand · To what, where: hill tops, tree tops, everything, way
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 roared | nsubj |
| 2 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 tops | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tops | det |
| 5 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tops | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 hill | punct |
| 7 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 roared | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shrieked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shrieked | cc |
| 10 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 roared | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 tops | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tops | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tops | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 tree | punct |
| 15 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shrieked | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 threatened | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 threatened | cc |
| 18 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 roared | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 overwhelm | mark |
| 20 | overwhelm | overwhelm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 threatened | xcomp |
| 21 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 20 overwhelm | obj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 stood | nsubj |
| 23 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 everything | acl:relcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 way | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 way | nmod:poss |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stood | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 roared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roar | past | Wind | the hill tops | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Location | ||||
| 2 | shriek | past | Wind not said here | the tree tops | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in top=Location | ||||
| 3 | threaten | participle | Wind not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | overwhelm not said to happen | to-infinitive | Wind not said here | everything | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus everything=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | stand | past | Wind's way | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in way=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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