The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 140
She listened to the shrill little sound that came from it.
Who acts: branch, shrill little sound · What happens: listen, come · To what, where: stranger
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 (branch, shrill little sound), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 listened | nsubj |
| 2 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 sound | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sound | det |
| 5 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sound | amod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sound | amod |
| 7 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 listened | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sound | acl:relcl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | branch | to the shrill little sound | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to sound=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the shrill little sound | stranger | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from it=Initial_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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