The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 11
Then, from the dark corner beyond the hearth-stones, suddenly a voice croaked like the voice of a sea-bird breasting the storm.
Who acts: sea bird · What happens: croak, breast · To what, where: voice, storm, dark corner
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Great Pike. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea bird), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 corner | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 corner | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 corner | det |
| 5 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 corner | amod |
| 6 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 11 stones | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stones | det |
| 9 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stones | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 hearth | punct |
| 11 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 corner | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 voice | punct |
| 13 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 15 voice | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 corner | conj |
| 16 | croaked | croak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 voice | acl |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 voice | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 voice | det |
| 19 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 croaked | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 bird | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 bird | det |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bird | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 sea | punct |
| 24 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 voice | nmod |
| 25 | breasting | breast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 bird | acl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 storm | det |
| 27 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 breasting | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 corner | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | croak | participle | a voice not said here | like the voice of a sea bird | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | breast | gerund | a sea bird not said here | the storm | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storm=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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