The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 157
Then, as the last echoes died, he leaped nimbly to the ground and ran out of the farmyard.
Who acts: last echoes, Kullervo · What happens: die, leap, run · To what, where: ground, farmyard
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 (last echoes, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 leaped | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 died | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 echoes | det |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 echoes | amod |
| 6 | echoes | echo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 died | nsubj |
| 7 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 leaped | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 died | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 leaped | nsubj |
| 10 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | nimbly | nimbly | ADV | _ | 10 leaped | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 ground | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ground | det |
| 14 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaped | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ran | cc |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 leaped | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 farmyard | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 farmyard | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 farmyard | det |
| 20 | farmyard | farmyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ran | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | the last echoes | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | leap | past | Kullervo | the ground | then | nimbly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to ground=Destination | ||
| 3 | run | past | Kullervo not said here | the farmyard | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out farmyard=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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