The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 19
The Wise Woman was disturbed and growing nervous.
What happens: disturb, grow · To what, where: Wise Woman
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Woman | det |
| 2 | Wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Woman | amod |
| 3 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 disturbed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 disturbed | aux:pass |
| 5 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 nervous | cc |
| 7 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 nervous | amod |
| 8 | nervous | nervous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 disturbed | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 disturbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disturb | past · passive | the Wise Woman | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | 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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