The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 2
The song of the cuckoo was hushed, and the wild geese in the inlets were huddling together and preparing for flight.
Who acts: wild geese, cuckoo · What happens: hush, huddle, prepare, sing · To what, where: song
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Bridegroom’s Triumph. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wild geese, cuckoo), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 song | det |
| 2 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hushed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 cuckoo | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cuckoo | det |
| 5 | cuckoo | cuckoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 song | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hushed | aux:pass |
| 7 | hushed | hush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 huddling | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 huddling | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 geese | det |
| 11 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 geese | amod |
| 12 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 huddling | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 inlets | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 inlets | det |
| 15 | inlets | inlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 geese | nmod |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 huddling | aux |
| 17 | huddling | huddle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 hushed | conj |
| 18 | together | together | ADV | _ | 17 huddling | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 preparing | cc |
| 20 | preparing | prepare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 huddling | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 flight | case |
| 22 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 preparing | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hush | past · passive | the song of the cuckoo | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | huddle | past · progressive | the wild geese in the inlets | together property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | prepare | gerund | the wild geese in the inlets not said here | for flight | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for flight=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | sing | the cuckoo | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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