The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 5
The wild geese honked noisily in the marshy lakes and sought their nesting places by the creeks.
Who acts: wild geese · What happens: honk, seek · To what, where: wild geese, marshy lakes, nesting places
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 (wild geese), 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 geese | det |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 geese | amod |
| 3 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sought | nsubj |
| 4 | honked | honk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 geese | acl |
| 5 | noisily | noisily | ADV | _ | 4 honked | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 lakes | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lakes | det |
| 8 | marshy | marshy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lakes | amod |
| 9 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 honked | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sought | cc |
| 11 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 places | nmod:poss |
| 13 | nesting | nesting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 places | compound |
| 14 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sought | obj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 creeks | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 creeks | det |
| 17 | creeks | creek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sought | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | honk | participle | the wild geese not said here | the marshy lakes | noisily property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lake=Location | |||
| 2 | seek | past | the wild geese | geese's nesting places | by the creeks | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Theme by creek=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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