The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 40
I stopped and listened to the little songster, and this is what I heard him sing:
Who acts: I, this, Beauty · What happens: stop, listen, be, hear, sing · To what, where: Beauty
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of Beauty. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, this, Beauty), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 stopped | nsubj |
| 2 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 listened | cc |
| 4 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stopped | conj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 songster | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 songster | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 songster | amod |
| 8 | songster | songster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 listened | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 what | cc |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 what | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 what | cop |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 stopped | advcl |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 heard | obj |
| 17 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 heard | xcomp |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | I | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | listen | past | I not said here | to the little songster | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to songster=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hear | past | I | Beauty | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | infinitive | Beauty not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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