The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 7
The roof was so high that when a cock crowed on the ridge-pole the hens on the ground below could not hear him.
Who acts: roof, cock, hens · What happens: be, crow, not hear · To what, where: ridge pole, cock
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 (roof, cock, hens), 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 roof | det |
| 2 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 high | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 high | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 high | advmod |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 crowed | mark |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 crowed | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cock | det |
| 9 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crowed | nsubj |
| 10 | crowed | crow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 hear | advcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 pole | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pole | det |
| 13 | ridge | ridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pole | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 ridge | punct |
| 15 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crowed | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hens | det |
| 17 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hear | nsubj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 ground | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ground | det |
| 20 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hens | nmod |
| 21 | below | below | ADV | _ | 20 ground | advmod |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 hear | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 hear | advmod |
| 24 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 high | parataxis |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hear | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 high | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the roof | high property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | crow | participle | a cock | the ridge pole | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not hear | could | the hens on the ground | cock | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=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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