The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 156
Five times—yes, six—Kullervo blew a long, piercing blast which might have been heard half-way across the sea.
Who acts: Kullervo · What happens: blow, pierce, hear · To what, where: long piercing blast, sea
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 (Kullervo), 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 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 blew | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 six | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 six | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 six | punct |
| 6 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | appos |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 blew | punct |
| 8 | Kullervo | Kullervo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 blew | nsubj |
| 9 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 blast | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 blast | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 piercing | punct |
| 13 | piercing | pierce | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 blast | amod |
| 14 | blast | blast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blew | obj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 heard | aux |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 heard | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 heard | aux:pass |
| 19 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 blast | acl:relcl |
| 20 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 22 way | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 half | punct |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heard | obj |
| 23 | across | across | ADP | _ | 25 sea | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sea | det |
| 25 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heard | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | Kullervo | a long piercing blast | time | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent blast=Patient | |||
| 2 | pierce | gerund | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | hear | might · perfect · passive | a long piercing blast | the sea | half way obj | tree rules |
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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