The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 44
With the basket on his arm he opened the farmyard gate and shouted to the cattle.
Who acts: slave · What happens: open, shout · To what, where: farmyard gate, cattle
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 (slave), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 basket | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 basket | det |
| 3 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 opened | obl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 arm | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 arm | nmod:poss |
| 6 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 basket | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 opened | nsubj |
| 8 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gate | det |
| 10 | farmyard | farmyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gate | compound |
| 11 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 opened | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shouted | cc |
| 13 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 opened | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 cattle | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cattle | det |
| 16 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shouted | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | slave | the farmyard gate | with the basket on slave's arm | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent gate=Patient with basket=Instrument | |||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | slave not said here | the cattle | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to cattle=Recipient |
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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