The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 6
The sound filled the air with its shrill but welcome music, and was echoed sharply from the hills and the forest beyond.
Who acts: sound · What happens: fill, echo · To what, where: air, hills
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sound | det |
| 2 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | nsubj |
| 3 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 air | det |
| 5 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 music | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 music | nmod:poss |
| 8 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 music | amod |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 welcome | cc |
| 10 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shrill | conj |
| 11 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 echoed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 echoed | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 echoed | aux:pass |
| 15 | echoed | echo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 filled | conj |
| 16 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 15 echoed | advmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 hills | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hills | det |
| 19 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 echoed | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 forest | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 forest | det |
| 22 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hills | conj |
| 23 | beyond | beyond | ADV | _ | 15 echoed | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | the sound | the air | with sound's shrill music | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent air=Patient with music=Instrument | |||
| 2 | echo | past · passive | the sound not said here | the hills and the forest | beyond, sharply property | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V» |
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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