The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 95
He found the Wise Woman at her door, gazing sharply at the sky, the sea, the earth, to learn for herself the reason for the unusual uproar.
Who acts: mistress · What happens: find, gaze, learn · To what, where: Wise Woman, door, reason
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 (mistress), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Woman | det |
| 4 | Wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Woman | amod |
| 5 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 door | nmod:poss |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gazing | punct |
| 10 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 found | advcl |
| 11 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 10 gazing | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 sky | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sky | det |
| 14 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gazing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sea | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sky | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 earth | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 earth | det |
| 20 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sky | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 learn | punct |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 learn | mark |
| 23 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 found | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 herself | case |
| 25 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 learn | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 reason | det |
| 27 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 learn | obj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 uproar | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 uproar | det |
| 30 | unusual | unusual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 uproar | amod |
| 31 | uproar | uproar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 reason | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | mistress | the Wise Woman | Woman's door | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent woman=Theme at door=Asset | |||
| 2 | gaze | gerund | mistress not said here | at the sky and the sea and the earth; sharply property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sky=Theme | ||||
| 3 | learn | to-infinitive | mistress not said here | the reason | for Woman; for the unusual uproar | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic |
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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