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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 154

From his belt he unloosed his herdsman’s whistle, a whistle carved from an ox’s horn; he put it to his lips and blew it loudly, shrilly.

Who acts: sun, herdsman · What happens: unloose, carve, put, blow, whistle · To what, where: whistle, belt, horn

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, herdsman), 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

casenmod:possoblnsubjnmod:possnmod:posscaseobjpunctdetapposaclcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctnsubjconjobjcasenmod:possoblccconjobjadvmodpunctparataxispunctrootFromADPhisPRONbeltNOUNhePRONunloosedVERBhisPRONherdsmanNOUN’sPARTwhistleNOUN,PUNCTaDETwhistleNOUNcarvedVERBfromADPanDEToxNOUN’sPARThornNOUN;PUNCThePRONputVERBitPRONtoADPhisPRONlipsNOUNandCCONJblewVERBitPRONloudlyADV,PUNCTshrillyADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1FromfromADP_3 beltcase
2hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 beltnmod:poss
3beltbeltNOUNNumber=Sing5 unloosedobl
4hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 unloosednsubj
5unloosedunlooseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 herdsmannmod:poss
7herdsmanherdsmanNOUNNumber=Sing9 whistlenmod:poss
8’s'sPART_7 herdsmancase
9whistlewhistleNOUNNumber=Sing5 unloosedobj
10,,PUNCT_12 whistlepunct
11aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art12 whistledet
12whistlewhistleNOUNNumber=Sing9 whistleappos
13carvedcarveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass12 whistleacl
14fromfromADP_18 horncase
15anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art16 oxdet
16oxoxNOUNNumber=Sing18 hornnmod:poss
17’s'sPART_16 oxcase
18hornhornNOUNNumber=Sing13 carvedobl
19;;PUNCT_21 putpunct
20hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 putnsubj
21putputVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 unloosedconj
22ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 putobj
23totoADP_25 lipscase
24hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 lipsnmod:poss
25lipslipNOUNNumber=Plur21 putobl
26andandCCONJ_27 blewcc
27blewblowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 unloosedconj
28ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 blewobj
29loudlyloudlyADV_27 blewadvmod
30,,PUNCT_31 shrillypunct
31shrillyshrillyADJDegree=Pos27 blewparataxis
32..PUNCT_5 unloosedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1unloosepastsunsun's herdsman's whistlesun's belttree rules
2carveparticiplea whistle not said herea ox's hornvn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3putpastsunwhistleto sun's lipsvn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
4blowpastsun not said herewhistleloudly propertyvn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5whistlesun's herdsmannom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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