The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 149
Like the wind he flew through the woods and the marshes and along the pebbly shores of the sea; and the heart of the brave Smith was cheered with courage and hope.
Who acts: hero · What happens: fly, cheer · To what, where: woods, heart
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), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 wind | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wind | det |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 woods | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woods | det |
| 8 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flew | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 marshes | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 marshes | det |
| 11 | marshes | marsh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 woods | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 shores | cc |
| 13 | along | along | ADP | _ | 16 shores | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shores | det |
| 15 | pebbly | pebbly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 shores | amod |
| 16 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 woods | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sea | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sea | det |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shores | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 cheered | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 cheered | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 heart | det |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 cheered | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Smith | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Smith | det |
| 26 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Smith | amod |
| 27 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 heart | nmod |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 cheered | aux:pass |
| 29 | cheered | cheer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 flew | conj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 courage | case |
| 31 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 cheered | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 hope | cc |
| 33 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 courage | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | hero | the woods and the marshes and the pebbly shores of the sea | like the wind | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent through wood=Location | |||
| 2 | cheer | past · passive | the heart of the brave Smith | with courage and hope | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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