The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 135
He went out alone, and for many tedious hours he walked up and down by the seashore pondering upon the subject.
Who acts: One, seashore · What happens: go out, walk, ponder
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, seashore), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 walked | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 walked | cc |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 hours | case |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hours | amod |
| 9 | tedious | tedious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hours | amod |
| 10 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 walked | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 walked | nsubj |
| 12 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADV | _ | 12 walked | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 down | cc |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 up | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 seashore | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 seashore | det |
| 18 | seashore | seashore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walked | obl |
| 19 | pondering | ponder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 seashore | acl |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 subject | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 subject | det |
| 22 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pondering | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | One | alone, out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | One | hour | by the seashore | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by seashore=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | ponder | gerund | the seashore not said here | upon the subject | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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