The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 153
Then he closed the gate without locking it and climbed up on the fence.
Who acts: sun · What happens: close, lock, climb up · To what, where: gate, fence
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 (sun), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 closed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 closed | nsubj |
| 3 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gate | det |
| 5 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 closed | obj |
| 6 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 7 locking | mark |
| 7 | locking | lock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 closed | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 locking | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 climbed | cc |
| 10 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 closed | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 climbed | compound:prt |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 fence | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fence | det |
| 14 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 climbed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 closed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | past | sun | the gate | then | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Patient | |||
| 2 | lock | gerund | sun not said here | gate | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | climb up | past | sun not said here | the fence | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fence=Trajectory |
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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