The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 63
Quickly the dreadful sound is repeated, deafening the ears, freezing the blood of both mistress and maidens.
What happens: repeat, deafen, freeze · To what, where: dreadful sound, ears, blood
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 | Quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 6 repeated | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sound | det |
| 3 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sound | amod |
| 4 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 repeated | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 repeated | aux:pass |
| 6 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 deafening | punct |
| 8 | deafening | deafen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 repeated | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ears | det |
| 10 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 deafening | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 freezing | punct |
| 12 | freezing | freeze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 deafening | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 blood | det |
| 14 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 freezing | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 mistress | case |
| 16 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 mistress | det |
| 17 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 blood | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 maidens | cc |
| 19 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 mistress | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | present · passive | the dreadful sound | quickly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | deafen | gerund | the ears | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | |||||
| 3 | freeze | gerund | the blood of both mistress and maidens | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient blood=Result |
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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