The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 59
Often, in the still hours of midnight, he fancied that he heard the voice of his dear one calling him by name.
Who acts: Beauty, dear one · What happens: fancy, hear, call · To what, where: voice, Beauty · 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 (Beauty, dear one), 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 | Often | often | ADV | _ | 6 hours | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Often | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hours | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hours | det |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 hours | advmod |
| 6 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fancied | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 midnight | case |
| 8 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hours | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hours | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fancied | nsubj |
| 11 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 heard | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fancied | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 voice | det |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 one | nmod:poss |
| 19 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 one | amod |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 voice | nmod |
| 21 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 one | acl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 calling | obj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 name | case |
| 24 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 calling | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fancied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | past | Beauty | hour | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Beauty | the voice of Beauty's dear one | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | call | gerund | Beauty's dear one not said here | Beauty | by name | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=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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