The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 74
The brute first pointed his nose towards the sea, then he looked far away at the meadows and the misty, mysterious hills.
Who acts: brute · What happens: point, look · To what, where: nose
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 (brute), 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 | 2 brute | det |
| 2 | brute | brute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pointed | nsubj |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 pointed | advmod |
| 4 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 nose | nmod:poss |
| 6 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pointed | obj |
| 7 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pointed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looked | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 looked | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 looked | nsubj |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pointed | conj |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 away | advmod |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 looked | advmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 meadows | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 meadows | det |
| 18 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 looked | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hills | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hills | det |
| 21 | misty | misty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hills | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 misty | punct |
| 23 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hills | amod |
| 24 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 meadows | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point | past | the brute | brute's nose | towards the sea; first property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nose=Theme towards sea=Recipient | |||
| 2 | look | past | brute | then | at the meadows and the misty mysterious hills; away property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at meadow=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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