The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 28
“Hasten back to Wainola!” echoed the cold, gray cliffs and the ragged rocks on the shore.
What happens: hasten back, echo · To what, where: Wainola, cold gray cliffs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hasten | punct |
| 2 | Hasten | hasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 echoed | ccomp |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 Hasten | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Wainola | case |
| 5 | Wainola | Wainola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Hasten | obl |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hasten | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hasten | punct |
| 8 | echoed | echo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cliffs | det |
| 10 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cliffs | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cold | punct |
| 12 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cliffs | amod |
| 13 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 echoed | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rocks | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rocks | det |
| 16 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 rocks | amod |
| 17 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cliffs | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 shore | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 shore | det |
| 20 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rocks | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 echoed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten back in a quote | infinitive | Wainola | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to wainola=Result | |||||
| 2 | echo | past | the cold gray cliffs and the ragged rocks on the shore | 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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