The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 41
Once, twice, thrice she heard the call; and then she knew what it meant.
Who acts: thrice, call · What happens: hear, know, mean · To what, where: call · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (thrice, call), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 twice | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
| 3 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 heard | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 twice | punct |
| 5 | thrice | thrice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 call | det |
| 9 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 knew | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 knew | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 knew | nsubj |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | conj |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 meant | obj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 meant | nsubj |
| 17 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 knew | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | thrice | the call | twice property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer call=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | know | past | thrice | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | mean | past | call | what obj | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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