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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 107

He looked, he listened, his heart throbbed with joy as he disrobed himself and poured the water slowly upon the red-hot bath-stones.

Who acts: cuckoo, heart · What happens: look, listen, throb, disrobe, pour · To what, where: cuckoo, water

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cuckoo, heart), 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

nsubjpunctnsubjparataxispunctnmod:possnsubjconjcaseoblmarknsubjadvclobjccconjdetobjadvmodcasedetamodpunctamodcompoundpunctoblpunctrootHePRONlookedVERB,PUNCThePRONlistenedVERB,PUNCThisPRONheartNOUNthrobbedVERBwithADPjoyNOUNasSCONJhePRONdisrobedVERBhimselfPRONandCCONJpouredVERBtheDETwaterNOUNslowlyADVuponADPtheDETredADJ-PUNCThotADJbathNOUN-PUNCTstonesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 lookednsubj
2lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3,,PUNCT_5 listenedpunct
4hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 listenednsubj
5listenedlistenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 lookedparataxis
6,,PUNCT_9 throbbedpunct
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 heartnmod:poss
8heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing9 throbbednsubj
9throbbedthrobVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass5 listenedconj
10withwithADP_11 joycase
11joyjoyNOUNNumber=Sing9 throbbedobl
12asasSCONJ_14 disrobedmark
13hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 disrobednsubj
14disrobeddisrobeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 throbbedadvcl
15himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes14 disrobedobj
16andandCCONJ_17 pouredcc
17pouredpourVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 disrobedconj
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 waterdet
19waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing17 pouredobj
20slowlyslowlyADV_17 pouredadvmod
21uponuponADP_28 stonescase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 stonesdet
23redredADJDegree=Pos25 hotamod
24--PUNCT_23 redpunct
25hothotADJDegree=Pos28 stonesamod
26bathbathNOUNNumber=Sing28 stonescompound
27--PUNCT_26 bathpunct
28stonesstoneNOUNNumber=Plur17 pouredobl
29..PUNCT_2 lookedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1lookpastcuckoovn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2listenpastcuckoovn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3throbparticiplecuckoo's heartwith joyvn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4disrobepastcuckoocuckoovn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
5pourpastcuckoo not said herethe waterupon the hot bath stones; slowly propertyvn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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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