The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Home Coming, sentence 28
Across the broad meadows, over the hills, through dark ravines, along the sandy shore the hero pursued his course, never pausing, never doubting.
Who acts: hero · What happens: pursue, not pause, not doubt · To what, where: course, broad meadows
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Home Coming. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hero), 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 | Across | across | ADP | _ | 4 meadows | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 meadows | det |
| 3 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 meadows | amod |
| 4 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 pursued | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hills | punct |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 hills | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hills | det |
| 8 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 meadows | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ravines | punct |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 ravines | case |
| 11 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ravines | amod |
| 12 | ravines | ravine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 meadows | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 meadows | punct |
| 14 | along | along | ADP | _ | 17 shore | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shore | det |
| 16 | sandy | sandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 shore | amod |
| 17 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pursued | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hero | det |
| 19 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pursued | nsubj |
| 20 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 course | nmod:poss |
| 22 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pursued | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 pausing | punct |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 pausing | advmod |
| 25 | pausing | pause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 pursued | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 doubting | punct |
| 27 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 28 doubting | advmod |
| 28 | doubting | doubt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 pausing | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 pursued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue | past | the hero | hero's course | the broad meadows and the hills and dark ravines | along the sandy shore | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent course=Theme across meadow=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | not pause | gerund | the hero not said here | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not doubt | gerund | the hero not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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