The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 99
But he, no whit afraid, paused in the midst of them and spoke these words of warning:
What happens: pause, speak, word · To what, where: midst, words, warning · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 afraid | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 afraid | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 afraid | punct |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 whit | det |
| 5 | whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 afraid | nsubj |
| 6 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 paused | punct |
| 8 | paused | pause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 afraid | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 midst | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 midst | det |
| 11 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 paused | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 midst | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 spoke | cc |
| 15 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 paused | conj |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 words | det |
| 17 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 spoke | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 warning | case |
| 19 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 words | nmod |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | participle | the midst of reptiles | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in midst=Location | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | this words of warning | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | word | warning | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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