The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 58
The slave boy growled a surly answer, and went slouching behind the herd, shouting to the laggers and casting stones at the browsing oxen.
Who acts: slave boy · What happens: growl, go, slouch, shout · To what, where: surly answer, herd, laggers, browsing oxen
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 boy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 2 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boy | compound |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 growled | nsubj |
| 4 | growled | growl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 answer | det |
| 6 | surly | surly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 answer | amod |
| 7 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 growled | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 growled | conj |
| 11 | slouching | slouch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 went | xcomp |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 14 herd | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 herd | det |
| 14 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slouching | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shouting | punct |
| 16 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 slouching | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 laggers | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 laggers | det |
| 19 | laggers | lagger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 shouting | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stones | cc |
| 21 | casting | casting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stones | compound |
| 22 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 laggers | conj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 oxen | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 oxen | det |
| 25 | browsing | browsing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 oxen | compound |
| 26 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 shouting | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 growled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | growl | past | the slave boy | a surly answer | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the slave boy not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | slouch | gerund | the slave boy not said here | the herd | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind herd=Location | ||||
| 4 | shout speech: express | gerund | the slave boy not said here | the laggers and casting stones | the browsing oxen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to lagger=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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