The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 54
The head serving-man was greatly disturbed, and yet he liked not to rise from his seat, for he was old and his limbs were stiff.
Who acts: man, limbs · What happens: disturb, like, not rise, be · To what, where: serving man, seat
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 (man, limbs), 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 | 5 man | det |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 serving | compound |
| 3 | serving | serving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 serving | punct |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 disturbed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 disturbed | aux:pass |
| 7 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 8 disturbed | advmod |
| 8 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 liked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 liked | cc |
| 11 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 13 liked | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 liked | nsubj |
| 13 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 disturbed | conj |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 rise | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 rise | mark |
| 16 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 liked | xcomp |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 seat | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 seat | nmod:poss |
| 19 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rise | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 old | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 old | case |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 old | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 old | cop |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rise | advcl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 stiff | cc |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 27 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 stiff | nsubj |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 stiff | cop |
| 29 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 old | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 disturbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disturb | past · passive | the serving man | greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | like | past | man | yet | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not rise not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | man's seat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from seat=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | man | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | man's limbs | stiff property | 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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