The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 54
Suddenly a great shout, a whoop, a scream is heard far down the road.
What happens: hear · To what, where: scream, great shout
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: 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 | _ | 4 shout | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 shout | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shout | amod |
| 4 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 whoop | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 whoop | det |
| 7 | whoop | whoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shout | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 scream | det |
| 10 | scream | scream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | aux:pass |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 shout | parataxis |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 heard | advmod |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 road | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 road | det |
| 16 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shout | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present · passive | a scream | down the road; far property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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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