The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 158
Half crouching, he slunk away behind hedges and bushes until his ungainly form was lost to sight among the evening shadows.
Who acts: Kullervo · What happens: crouch, slink away, lose, form · To what, where: hedges, ungainly form
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 | Half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 2 crouching | compound |
| 2 | crouching | crouch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 slunk | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 crouching | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 slunk | nsubj |
| 5 | slunk | slink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 slunk | advmod |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 8 hedges | case |
| 8 | hedges | hedge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 slunk | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bushes | cc |
| 10 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hedges | conj |
| 11 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 lost | mark |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 form | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ungainly | ungainly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 form | amod |
| 14 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 lost | aux:pass |
| 16 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 slunk | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 sight | mark |
| 18 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lost | xcomp |
| 19 | among | among | ADP | _ | 22 shadows | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shadows | det |
| 21 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shadows | compound |
| 22 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lost | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 slunk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crouch | gerund | Kullervo not said here | Half compound | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | slink away | past | Kullervo | hedges and bushes | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind hedge=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | lose | past · passive | Kullervo's ungainly form | among the evening shadows; sight xcomp | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | form | Kullervo | nom form «communication transitive»: 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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