The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 52
Shouting words of cheer, the Mistress hurried to him.
Who acts: Shouting words · What happens: shout, hurry, word · To what, where: cock, cheer
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 (Shouting words), 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 | Shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 words | amod |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hurried | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 cheer | case |
| 4 | cheer | cheer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mistress | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Mistress | det |
| 7 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cheer | conj |
| 8 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hurried | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | hurry | past | Shouting words of cheer and the Mistress | cock | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to he=Result | ||||
| 3 | word | cheer and the Mistress | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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