The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 52
Louder and still louder waxed the tumult.
What happens: wax · To what, where: tumult
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 | Louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 waxed | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 louder | cc |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 louder | advmod |
| 4 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Louder | conj |
| 5 | waxed | wax | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tumult | det |
| 7 | tumult | tumult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waxed | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 waxed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wax | past | the tumult | still | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tumult=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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