The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 92
Then he raised his voice still higher, and the music of his words was echoed from the four corners of the sky.
Who acts: Keeper · What happens: raise, echo, word · To what, where: voice, music, four corners
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 (Keeper), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 raised | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 raised | nsubj |
| 3 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 voice | nmod:poss |
| 5 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | obj |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 higher | advmod |
| 7 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 voice | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 echoed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 echoed | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 music | det |
| 11 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 echoed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 words | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 words | nmod:poss |
| 14 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 music | nmod |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 echoed | aux:pass |
| 16 | echoed | echo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 raised | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 corners | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 corners | det |
| 19 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 corners | nummod |
| 20 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 echoed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sky | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sky | det |
| 23 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 corners | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | Keeper | Keeper's voice | then | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme | |||
| 2 | echo | past · passive | the music of Keeper's words | the four corners of the sky | vn sound_existence-47.4 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | word | Keeper | nom word «communication 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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