The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 6
It was so long that when a dog barked at one end the sound of his voice could not be heard at the other.
Who acts: Mistress, dog, one end · What happens: be, bark, not hear · To what, where: sound, other
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wedding Feast. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mistress, dog, one end), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 long | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 barked | mark |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 barked | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dog | det |
| 8 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 barked | nsubj |
| 9 | barked | bark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 long | advcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 end | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 end | nummod |
| 12 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 barked | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sound | det |
| 14 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 voice | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 voice | nmod:poss |
| 17 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sound | nmod |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 heard | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 heard | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 heard | aux:pass |
| 21 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 end | acl:relcl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 other | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 other | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 heard | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Mistress | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bark | participle | a dog | at one end | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at end=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not hear | could · passive | one end not said here | the sound of dog's voice | the other | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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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