The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Home Coming, sentence 39
Then quickly all the village people came running to greet their neighbor Ilmarinen and his beautiful young bride.
Who acts: village · What happens: come, run, greet · To what, where: neighbor
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 (village), 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 | 7 came | advmod |
| 2 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 all | advmod |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 village | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 village | det |
| 5 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 came | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 greet | mark |
| 10 | greet | greet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 running | xcomp |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 neighbor | nmod:poss |
| 12 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 greet | obj |
| 13 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 neighbor | appos |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bride | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bride | nmod:poss |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bride | amod |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bride | amod |
| 18 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 neighbor | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | all village | then | people nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | run | gerund | all village not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | greet speech: greet | to-infinitive | all village not said here | people's neighbor and Ilmarinen's beautiful young bride | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbor=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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