The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 73
The maddened, hungry wolves ran out of the paddock, out of the farmyard; the hideous bears rushed after them.
Who acts: maddened hungry wolves · What happens: madden, run, rush · To what, where: paddock, hideous bears
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 (maddened hungry wolves), 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 | 5 wolves | det |
| 2 | maddened | madden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wolves | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 maddened | punct |
| 4 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wolves | amod |
| 5 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ran | nsubj |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 paddock | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 paddock | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 paddock | det |
| 10 | paddock | paddock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 farmyard | punct |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 farmyard | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 farmyard | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 farmyard | det |
| 15 | farmyard | farmyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 bears | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bears | det |
| 18 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bears | amod |
| 19 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ran | parataxis |
| 20 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 bears | acl |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rushed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | madden | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | run | past | the maddened hungry wolves | the paddock | out the farmyard; the hideous bears parataxis | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out paddock=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | rush | participle | the hideous bears not said here | after jaws = jaw | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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