The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 121
The South Wind is awake!” cried Anniki, and the next moment she was running to the mainland with the speed of a deer.
Who acts: South Wind, next moment · What happens: be, cry, run
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (South Wind, next moment), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wind | det |
| 2 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Wind | compound |
| 3 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 awake | cop |
| 5 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Wind | appos |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Wind | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Wind | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Anniki | Anniki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 running | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 running | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 moment | det |
| 13 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 moment | amod |
| 14 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 running | nsubj |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 running | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 running | aux |
| 17 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 cried | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 mainland | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mainland | det |
| 20 | mainland | mainland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 running | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 speed | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 speed | det |
| 23 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 running | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 deer | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 deer | det |
| 26 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 speed | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | awake property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | the South Wind | Anniki flat | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | run in a quote | past · progressive | the next moment | to the mainland result; with the speed of a deer; wind nsubj | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mainland=Result |
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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