The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 9

He walked slowly up the deserted pathway to the village, looking at the barren fields and the fruitless trees, the empty barns and the gloomy houses, the many signs of poverty and distress.

Who acts: cattle · What happens: walk, desert, look, sign · To what, where: many signs, poverty

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cattle), 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 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 walked	advmod
4	up	up	ADP	_	7 pathway	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pathway	det
6	deserted	desert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 pathway	amod
7	pathway	pathway	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 village	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 village	det
10	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looking	punct
12	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 walked	advcl
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 fields	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fields	det
15	barren	barren	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fields	compound
16	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 looking	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 trees	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 trees	det
19	fruitless	fruitless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 trees	amod
20	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fields	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 barns	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 barns	det
23	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 barns	amod
24	barns	barn	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fields	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 houses	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 houses	det
27	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 houses	amod
28	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fields	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 signs	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 signs	det
31	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 signs	amod
32	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 looking	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 poverty	case
34	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 signs	nmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 distress	cc
36	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 poverty	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	walk	past	cattle		up the deserted pathway; to the village result; slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to village=Result
2	desert	participle				vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	gerund	cattle not said here	the many signs of poverty and distress	at the barren fields and the fruitless trees and the empty barns and the gloomy houses	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at field=Theme
4	sign			poverty and distress		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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 9

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 9