The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 103
Creep away into the bushes, hide yourselves in your loathsome dwellings.
Who acts: you · What happens: creep away, hide · To what, where: bushes, yourselves, loathsome dwellings
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Creep | creep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Creep | advmod |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 bushes | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bushes | det |
| 5 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Creep | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hide | punct |
| 7 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Creep | parataxis |
| 8 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 hide | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 dwellings | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 dwellings | nmod:poss |
| 11 | loathsome | loathsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dwellings | amod |
| 12 | dwellings | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hide | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Creep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep away | imperative | you not said here | the bushes | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bush=Destination | |||
| 2 | hide | present | yourselves | your loathsome dwellings | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent yourselves=Patient in dwelling=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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