The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 118
Kullervo leaped up and stood upon the hummock.
Who acts: Kullervo · What happens: leap up, stand · To what, where: hummock
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 (Kullervo), 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 | Kullervo | Kullervo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 leaped | nsubj |
| 2 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 leaped | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stood | cc |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 leaped | conj |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 hummock | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hummock | det |
| 8 | hummock | hummock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap up | past | Kullervo | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | Kullervo not said here | the hummock | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon hummock=Location |
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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