The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 80
Meanwhile the slave, Kullervo, was still sitting on his lonely hummock, keeping watch over the cattle and nursing his evil thoughts.
Who acts: Kullervo · What happens: sit, keep, nurse, think · To what, where: slave, lonely hummock, watch, evil thoughts
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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 3 slave | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 slave | det |
| 3 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sitting | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Kullervo | punct |
| 5 | Kullervo | Kullervo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 slave | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 slave | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sitting | aux |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 sitting | advmod |
| 9 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 hummock | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hummock | nmod:poss |
| 12 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hummock | amod |
| 13 | hummock | hummock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sitting | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 keeping | punct |
| 15 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 sitting | conj |
| 16 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 keeping | obj |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 cattle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cattle | det |
| 19 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 keeping | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 nursing | cc |
| 21 | nursing | nurse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 keeping | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 23 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 thoughts | amod |
| 24 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 nursing | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | the slave | Kullervo's lonely hummock | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hummock=Location | |||
| 2 | keep | gerund | watch | over the cattle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme over cattle=Location | ||||
| 3 | nurse | gerund | Kullervo's evil thoughts | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Beneficiary | |||||
| 4 | think | Kullervo | nom thought «cognition 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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