The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 49
She rose quickly and hurried to the door, waving her hand to Kullervo and calling to him in shrill, commanding tones:
Who acts: wife · What happens: rise, hurry, wave, call, command · To what, where: door, hand, Kullervo, shrill, tones · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wife), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rose | nsubj |
| 2 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 2 rose | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hurried | cc |
| 5 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 rose | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hurried | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 waving | punct |
| 10 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 hurried | advcl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 waving | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Kullervo | case |
| 14 | Kullervo | Kullervo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 hand | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 calling | cc |
| 16 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 waving | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 calling | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 shrill | case |
| 20 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 calling | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 commanding | punct |
| 22 | commanding | command | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 waving | conj |
| 23 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 commanding | obj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | wife | quickly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hurry | participle | wife not said here | the door | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to door=Destination | ||||
| 3 | wave | gerund | wife not said here | wife's hand | Kullervo | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Theme to kullervo=Recipient | |||
| 4 | call | gerund | wife not said here | Kullervo | shrill | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 5 | command | gerund | wife not said here | tones | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent tone=Eventuality |
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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