The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 43
But ere he reached it his eyes detected many a sign of the fearful scenes that had been enacted there.
Who acts: cry, eyes · What happens: reach, detect, enact, sign · To what, where: farmhouse, many sign, fearful scenes
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: who acts (cry, eyes), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 reached | cc |
| 2 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 4 reached | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | obj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 detected | nsubj |
| 8 | detected | detect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | conj |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sign | amod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sign | det |
| 11 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 detected | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 scenes | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 scenes | det |
| 14 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 scenes | amod |
| 15 | scenes | scene | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sign | nmod |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 enacted | obj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 enacted | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 enacted | aux:pass |
| 19 | enacted | enact | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 scenes | acl:relcl |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 enacted | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | cry | farmhouse | ere property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | detect | past | cry's eyes | a many sign of the fearful scenes | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sign=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | enact | past · perfect · passive | the fearful scenes | there | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: that=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sign | the fearful scenes | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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