The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 96
With long, impatient strides he hurried home and laid the precious gifts in his sister’s hands.
Who acts: master · What happens: hurry, lay · To what, where: precious gifts, hands
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 (master), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 5 strides | case |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 strides | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 long | punct |
| 4 | impatient | impatient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 strides | amod |
| 5 | strides | stride | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hurried | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hurried | nsubj |
| 7 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 hurried | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 laid | cc |
| 10 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hurried | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gifts | det |
| 12 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gifts | amod |
| 13 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 laid | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 hands | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sister | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hands | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 sister | case |
| 18 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 laid | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry | past | master | with long impatient strides; home property | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with stride=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | lay | past | master not said here | the precious gifts | master's sister's hands | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gift=Theme in hand=Destination |
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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