The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 46
Frantically the hero ran from one spot to another loudly calling to his mother, to his sister, the maid of the morning, to his wife, the best beloved, the beautiful.
Who acts: hero, another · What happens: run, call · To what, where: one spot, mother · 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: who acts (hero, another), 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 | Frantically | frantically | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hero | det |
| 3 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 spot | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 spot | nummod |
| 7 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| 8 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 11 calling | mark |
| 9 | another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 11 calling | nsubj |
| 10 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 11 calling | advmod |
| 11 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 ran | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 mother | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 calling | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sister | punct |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 sister | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sister | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 calling | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 maid | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 maid | det |
| 21 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sister | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 morning | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 morning | det |
| 24 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 maid | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wife | punct |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 wife | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 wife | nmod:poss |
| 28 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 calling | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 beloved | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 beloved | det |
| 31 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 beloved | amod |
| 32 | beloved | beloved | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wife | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 beautiful | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 beautiful | det |
| 35 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 wife | parataxis |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the hero | one spot | frantically property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from spot=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | call speech: assert | gerund | another | hero's mother | to hero's sister; hero's wife and the best beloved parataxis; loudly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient |
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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