The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 51
He looked no farther, but sat down upon the ground and gave expression to his overwhelming grief.
Who acts: floor · What happens: look, sit down, give · To what, where: ground, expression, overwhelming grief
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 (floor), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 farther | det |
| 4 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 looked | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sat | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 sat | cc |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 sat | compound:prt |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 ground | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ground | det |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sat | conj |
| 14 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 grief | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 grief | nmod:poss |
| 17 | overwhelming | overwhelming | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 grief | amod |
| 18 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | floor | far property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | the ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon ground=Location | |||||
| 3 | give | past | expression | floor's overwhelming grief | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent expression=Theme to grief=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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