The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 148
The hero cracked his whip, and the gray racer bounded forward and sped swiftly away.
Who acts: hero, gray racer · What happens: crack, bound, speed · To what, where: whip, gray racer
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 (hero, gray racer), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hero | det |
| 2 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cracked | nsubj |
| 3 | cracked | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 whip | nmod:poss |
| 5 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cracked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sped | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sped | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 racer | det |
| 9 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 racer | compound |
| 10 | racer | racer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sped | nsubj |
| 11 | bounded | bound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 racer | acl |
| 12 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 11 bounded | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bounded | cc |
| 14 | sped | speed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cracked | conj |
| 15 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 16 away | advmod |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 sped | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cracked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crack | past | the hero | hero's whip | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whip=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bound | participle | the gray racer not said here | forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | speed | past | the gray racer | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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