The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 106

With a cry of despair he flung them far from him; with a cry of wrath he threw the stone-filled cake still farther, and it fell with a thud among the bushes.

Who acts: blade, knife, despair, wrath · What happens: fling, throw, fill, fall, cry · To what, where: sides, filled cake, bushes

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blade, knife, despair, wrath), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 cry	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cry	det
3	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 threw	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 despair	case
5	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cry	nmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 flung	nsubj
7	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 despair	acl:relcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 flung	obj
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 flung	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 far	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 cry	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 cry	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cry	det
15	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 threw	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 wrath	case
17	wrath	wrath	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cry	nmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 threw	nsubj
19	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cake	det
21	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 filled	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 stone	punct
23	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 cake	amod
24	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 threw	obj
25	still	still	ADV	_	26 farther	advmod
26	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 threw	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fell	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fell	cc
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 fell	nsubj
30	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 threw	conj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 thud	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 thud	det
33	thud	thud	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fell	obl
34	among	among	ADP	_	36 bushes	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 bushes	det
36	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fell	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fling	past	blade	sides = side			far property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	throw	past	blade	the filled cake		still	with a cry of despair; with a cry of wrath; far property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme
3	fill	participle					stone compound	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	fall	past	knife		the bushes		with a thud	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among bush=Location
5	cry		despair					nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent
6	cry		wrath					nom cry «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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 106

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 106