The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 150

Then in the dim evening twilight the hero perceived six cuckoos perched on the dashboard before him, and beside them seven small bluebirds were sitting.

Who acts: hero · What happens: perceive, perch, sit · To what, where: six cuckoos, dim evening twilight, dashboard

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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 perceived	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	6 twilight	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 twilight	det
4	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 twilight	amod
5	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 twilight	compound
6	twilight	twilight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 perceived	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hero	det
8	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 perceived	nsubj
9	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 cuckoos	nummod
11	cuckoos	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 perceived	obj
12	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 cuckoos	acl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 dashboard	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dashboard	det
15	dashboard	dashboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 perched	obl
16	before	before	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 perched	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sitting	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sitting	cc
20	beside	beside	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sitting	obl
22	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 bluebirds	nummod
23	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bluebirds	amod
24	bluebirds	bluebird	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 them	appos
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sitting	aux
26	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 perceived	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 perceived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	the hero	six cuckoos	the dim evening twilight	then		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cuckoo=Stimulus
2	perch	participle		six cuckoos not said here	the dashboard	before hero		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on dashboard=Location
3	sit	past · progressive	the hero not said here				beside courage	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside they=Location

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 150

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 150