The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 129
He gathered the yearlings together and, after much shouting and cursing, chased them into the tangled thickets where the wild beasts had their lairs.
Who acts: savagery, wild beasts · What happens: gather, curse, chase, have · To what, where: yearlings, lairs
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, wild beasts), 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 gathered | nsubj |
| 2 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 yearlings | det |
| 4 | yearlings | yearling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gathered | obj |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 gathered | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 chased | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 and | punct |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 shouting | case |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shouting | amod |
| 10 | shouting | shouting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chased | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cursing | cc |
| 12 | cursing | curse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 shouting | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shouting | punct |
| 14 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gathered | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 chased | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 thickets | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 thickets | det |
| 18 | tangled | tangled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 thickets | amod |
| 19 | thickets | thicket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 chased | parataxis |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 had | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 beasts | det |
| 22 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 beasts | amod |
| 23 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 had | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 thickets | advcl |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 lairs | nmod:poss |
| 26 | lairs | lair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 had | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | savagery | the yearlings | together property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yearling=Theme | |||
| 2 | curse | gerund | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | chase | past | savagery not said here | yearlings = yearling | after much shouting | the tangled thickets parataxis | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||
| 4 | have | past | the wild beasts | beasts's lairs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lair=Patient |
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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