The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 146
With noiseless steps he ran among the beasts, breathing words of magic, words of cunning in their ears.
Who acts: boy · What happens: run, breathe, word · To what, where: beasts, words, ears, magic, cunning
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 (boy), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 steps | case |
| 2 | noiseless | noiseless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 steps | amod |
| 3 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ran | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 beasts | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 beasts | det |
| 8 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ran | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 breathing | punct |
| 10 | breathing | breathe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 ran | advcl |
| 11 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 breathing | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 magic | case |
| 13 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 words | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 words | punct |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 words | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 cunning | case |
| 17 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 words | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 ears | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 ears | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 breathing | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | boy | the beasts | with noiseless steps | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among beast=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | breathe | gerund | boy not said here | words of magic and words of cunning | words's ears | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||
| 3 | word | magic | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | word | cunning | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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