The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 15
My ears are surely split and my head will burst from the unearthly noise.”
Who acts: head · What happens: split, burst · To what, where: ears, unearthly noise
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 ears | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 split | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 split | aux:pass |
| 4 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 5 split | advmod |
| 5 | split | split | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 burst | cc |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 burst | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 burst | aux |
| 10 | burst | burst | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 split | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 noise | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 noise | det |
| 13 | unearthly | unearthly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 noise | amod |
| 14 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 burst | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 burst | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | split | present · passive | My ears | surely property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | burst | future | my head | the unearthly noise | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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