The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 11
Suddenly an uproar was heard, a sound feeble at first but every moment growing louder.
Who acts: moment · What happens: hear, grow · To what, where: uproar
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moment), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 heard | advmod |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 uproar | det |
| 3 | uproar | uproar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | aux:pass |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sound | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sound | det |
| 8 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 9 | feeble | feeble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sound | amod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 first | case |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 feeble | obl |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 moment | cc |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 moment | det |
| 14 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sound | conj |
| 15 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 moment | acl |
| 16 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 growing | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | a uproar | a sound but every moment obj; suddenly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | every moment not said here | loud property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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