The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 7
Again it was heard, and again and again, each time more distinct, more persistent, less musical.
What happens: hear · To what, where: sound
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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux:pass |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 again | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 again | cc |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 heard | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 again | cc |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 again | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 distinct | punct |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 distinct | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 distinct | advmod |
| 14 | distinct | distinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 heard | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 persistent | punct |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 persistent | advmod |
| 17 | persistent | persistent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 distinct | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 musical | punct |
| 19 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 musical | advmod |
| 20 | musical | musical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 distinct | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | sound | again; again; again | 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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