The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 1
Hour after hour the two heroes sat together and talked of their great project and the desire of their hearts.
Who acts: Hour, heroes · What happens: sit, talk, project, desire · To what, where: hearts
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hour, heroes), 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 | Hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 hour | case |
| 3 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hour | nmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heroes | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 heroes | nummod |
| 6 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sat | nsubj |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 sat | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 talked | cc |
| 10 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sat | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 project | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 project | nmod:poss |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 project | amod |
| 14 | project | project | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 talked | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 desire | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 desire | det |
| 17 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 project | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 hearts | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 desire | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Hour after hour | the two heroes nsubj; together property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | talk | past | Hour after hour not said here | of heroes's great project and the desire of heroes's hearts | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | project | heroes = hero | nom project «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | desire | heroes's hearts | nom desire «feeling 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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