The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 11
Hastily he made his way to the seashore, the day growing brighter with every step.
Who acts: Minstrel, day · What happens: make, grow · To what, where: way
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Launching. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel, day), 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 | Hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | 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 way | nmod:poss |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 seashore | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 seashore | det |
| 8 | seashore | seashore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 day | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seashore | appos |
| 12 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 day | acl |
| 13 | brighter | bright | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 growing | xcomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 step | case |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 step | det |
| 16 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 growing | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Minstrel | Minstrel's way | to the seashore; hastily property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Product | |||
| 2 | grow | gerund | the day not said here | with every step; bright property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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