The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 20

He pointed with his right hand towards the forest and the blue hills beyond it, and spoke in low, half-whispered tones as if revealing a forbidden secret:

Who acts: man · What happens: point, speak, whisper, reveal · To what, where: low whispered tones, forbidden secret · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 pointed	nsubj
2	pointed	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 hand	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hand	nmod:poss
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hand	amod
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pointed	obl
7	towards	towards	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pointed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hills	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hills	det
12	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hills	amod
13	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 forest	conj
14	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hills	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 spoke	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 spoke	cc
18	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pointed	parataxis
19	in	in	ADP	_	25 tones	case
20	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tones	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 low	punct
22	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	24 whispered	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 half	punct
24	whispered	whisper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 tones	amod
25	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 spoke	obl
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 revealing	mark
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 revealing	mark
28	revealing	reveal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 spoke	advcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 secret	det
30	forbidden	forbidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 secret	amod
31	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 revealing	obj
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 pointed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	point	past	man			with man's right hand; towards the forest and the blue hills beyond hand	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent towards forest=Recipient
2	speak speech: other	past			low whispered tones		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	whisper speech: assert	participle				half compound	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	reveal	gerund		a forbidden secret			vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 20

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 20