The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 32
She heard a cry which was not the cry of a sea-bird.
Who acts: maiden, cry · What happens: hear, not be · To what, where: cry
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 (maiden, cry), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cry | det |
| 4 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | obj |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 cry | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cry | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 cry | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cry | det |
| 9 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cry | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bird | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bird | det |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bird | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 sea | punct |
| 14 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cry | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | maiden | a cry and the cry | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not is a | past | a cry and the cry | the cry | of a sea bird | tree rules |
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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