The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 127
Slashing it this way and that, he rushed hither and thither collecting his herd.
Who acts: savagery · What happens: slash, rush, collect · To what, where: branch, herd
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 | Slashing | slash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 rushed | advcl |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Slashing | obj |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Slashing | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 that | cc |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 way | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Slashing | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 rushed | nsubj |
| 9 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 9 rushed | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 collecting | cc |
| 12 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 13 collecting | advmod |
| 13 | collecting | collect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 rushed | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 herd | nmod:poss |
| 15 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 collecting | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slash | gerund | savagery not said here | branch | this way that obl:unmarked | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | rush | past | savagery | hither property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | collect | gerund | savagery not said here | savagery's herd | thither property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=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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