The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 125
All the savagery that had been lurking in his blue eyes burst forth, as lightning bursts from the drifting clouds.
Who acts: savagery, lightning · What happens: lurk, burst, drift · To what, where: blue eyes, drifting clouds
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 (savagery, lightning), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 savagery | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 savagery | det |
| 3 | savagery | savagery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 burst | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 lurking | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lurking | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 lurking | aux |
| 7 | lurking | lurk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 savagery | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eyes | amod |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lurking | obl |
| 12 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 12 burst | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bursts | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 bursts | mark |
| 16 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bursts | nsubj |
| 17 | bursts | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 burst | conj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 clouds | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 clouds | det |
| 20 | drifting | drift | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 clouds | amod |
| 21 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bursts | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lurk | past · perfect · progressive | all savagery | savagery's blue eyes | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in eye=Location | ||||
| 2 | burst | present | all savagery | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | burst | present | lightning | the drifting clouds | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drift | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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