The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 110
“Try the rowan branch!” croaked a voice from the dark corner beyond the hearth.
What happens: try, croak · To what, where: rowan branch, voice, dark corner · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Try | punct |
| 2 | Try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 croaked | ccomp |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 branch | det |
| 4 | rowan | rowan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 branch | compound |
| 5 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Try | obj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Try | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Try | punct |
| 8 | croaked | croak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 voice | det |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 croaked | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 corner | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 corner | det |
| 13 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 corner | amod |
| 14 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 croaked | obl |
| 15 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 17 hearth | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hearth | det |
| 17 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 corner | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 croaked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try in a quote | infinitive | the rowan branch | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | croak | past | a voice | the dark corner beyond the hearth | tree rules |
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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