The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 5
Suddenly the sound of the slave boy’s whistle—the herdsman’s whistle—aroused and startled them.
Who acts: sound, slave boy, herdsman · What happens: arouse, startle, whistle · To what, where: whistle, wife
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 (sound, slave boy, herdsman), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 sound | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sound | det |
| 3 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 startled | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 whistle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 6 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 boy | compound |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 whistle | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 boy | case |
| 9 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sound | nmod |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 whistle | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 herdsman | det |
| 12 | herdsman | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 whistle | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 herdsman | case |
| 14 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 startled | nsubj |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 aroused | punct |
| 16 | aroused | arouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 whistle | acl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 aroused | cc |
| 18 | startled | startle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 startled | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 startled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arouse | participle | the herdsman's whistle not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | startle | past | the sound of the slave boy's whistle | wife | the herdsman's whistle nsubj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | whistle | the slave boy | nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | whistle | the herdsman | nom whistle «event intransitive»: 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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