The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 132
The gentle milk cows, the timid yearlings, even the stolid oxen, were overcome with fear.
What happens: overcome · To what, where: gentle milk cows
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cows | det |
| 2 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cows | amod |
| 3 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cows | compound |
| 4 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 overcome | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 yearlings | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 yearlings | det |
| 7 | timid | timid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 yearlings | amod |
| 8 | yearlings | yearling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cows | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 oxen | punct |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 oxen | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 oxen | det |
| 12 | stolid | stolid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 oxen | amod |
| 13 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cows | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cows | punct |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 overcome | aux:pass |
| 16 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 fear | case |
| 18 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 overcome | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 overcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overcome | past · passive | the gentle milk cows and the timid yearlings and the stolid oxen | with fear | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: subject=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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