The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 125
Then he heard clearly the shouting of the young men and the singing of the maidens, and above all the clear, commanding tones of the master.
Who acts: fisherman, young men · What happens: hear, command, shout, sing, intonate · To what, where: shouting, tones, maidens, master · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fisherman, young men), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 3 heard | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shouting | det |
| 6 | shouting | shouting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 men | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 men | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 men | amod |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 shouting | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 singing | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 singing | det |
| 13 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 men | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 maidens | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 maidens | det |
| 16 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 singing | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 clear | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 clear | cc |
| 19 | above | above | ADP | _ | 22 clear | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 clear | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 clear | det |
| 22 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heard | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 commanding | punct |
| 24 | commanding | command | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 heard | advcl |
| 25 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 commanding | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 master | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 master | det |
| 28 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tones | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | fisherman | the shouting of the young men and the singing of the maidens | then | clearly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer shouting=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | command | gerund | fisherman not said here | tones of the master | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent tone=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | shout | the young men and the singing of the maidens | nom shouting «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | sing | the maidens | nom singing «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | intonate | the master | nom tone «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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