The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 55

It is not the shouting of a lone traveller; it is not the whooping of a home-coming ploughboy; it is not the screaming of a frightened woman.

Who acts: scream · What happens: not be, come, scream · To what, where: shouting, whooping

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 (scream), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shouting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shouting	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 shouting	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shouting	det
5	shouting	shouting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 traveller	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 traveller	det
8	lone	lone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 traveller	amod
9	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shouting	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 whooping	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 whooping	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 whooping	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 whooping	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 whooping	det
15	whooping	whooping	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shouting	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	21 ploughboy	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 ploughboy	det
18	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 coming	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 home	punct
20	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 ploughboy	amod
21	ploughboy	ploughboy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 whooping	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 woman	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 woman	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 woman	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 woman	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 woman	det
27	screaming	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 woman	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 woman	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 woman	det
30	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 woman	amod
31	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shouting	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shouting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	scream	the shouting and the whooping and the frightened woman	of a lone traveller	tree rules
2	not is a	present	scream	the whooping	of a coming ploughboy	tree rules
3	come	gerund			home compound	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	scream speech: express	gerund				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not is	present	scream		of the frightened woman	tree rules

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 55

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 55