The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 48
Meanwhile all the people of Pohyola, men and women, boys and girls, and even the barking dogs, had run down to the waterside to watch the coming of the little ship.
What happens: bark, run down, watch, come
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Old Man’s Wooing. 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 23 run | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 people | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Meanwhile | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Pohyola | case |
| 6 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 people | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 men | punct |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 people | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 women | cc |
| 10 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 people | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 boys | punct |
| 12 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 people | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 girls | cc |
| 14 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 people | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dogs | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dogs | cc |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 dogs | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dogs | det |
| 19 | barking | bark | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 dogs | amod |
| 20 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 people | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meanwhile | punct |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 run | aux |
| 23 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 23 run | compound:prt |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 waterside | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 waterside | det |
| 27 | waterside | waterside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 run | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 watch | mark |
| 29 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 run | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 coming | det |
| 31 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 watch | xcomp |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 ship | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 ship | det |
| 34 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 ship | amod |
| 35 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 coming | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bark | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | run down | past · perfect | to the waterside result; meanwhile property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to waterside=Result | |||||
| 3 | watch | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | come | gerund | of the little ship | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of ship=Initial_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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