The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 126
He ran to the woody thicket and broke off a long branch of hemlock to serve him as a whip.
Who acts: savagery · What happens: run, break off, serve · To what, where: long branch, savagery
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 thicket | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thicket | det |
| 5 | woody | woody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thicket | amod |
| 6 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 broke | cc |
| 8 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 broke | compound:prt |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 branch | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 branch | amod |
| 12 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 broke | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 hemlock | case |
| 14 | hemlock | hemlock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 branch | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 serve | mark |
| 16 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 broke | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 serve | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 whip | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 whip | det |
| 20 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 serve | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | savagery | to the woody thicket result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to thicket=Result | ||||
| 2 | break off | past | savagery not said here | a long branch of hemlock | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer branch=Patient | ||||
| 3 | serve | to-infinitive | savagery not said here | savagery | as a whip | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Duration as whip=Attribute |
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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