The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 84
Half-grown boys and little girls pushed shyly forward—all curious to gaze on the wonderful kantele, all anxious to hear its sweet music.
Who acts: grown boys · What happens: grow, push, gaze, hear · To what, where: sweet music
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grown boys), 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 | Half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 3 grown | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Half | punct |
| 3 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 boys | amod |
| 4 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pushed | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 girls | cc |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girls | amod |
| 7 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 boys | conj |
| 8 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | shyly | shyly | ADV | _ | 8 pushed | advmod |
| 10 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 8 pushed | advmod |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 curious | punct |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 curious | det |
| 13 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pushed | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 gaze | mark |
| 15 | gaze | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 curious | xcomp |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 kantele | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 kantele | det |
| 18 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 kantele | amod |
| 19 | kantele | kantele | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gaze | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 anxious | punct |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 anxious | det |
| 22 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 kantele | amod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 hear | mark |
| 24 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 anxious | xcomp |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 music | nmod:poss |
| 26 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 music | amod |
| 27 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hear | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | Half compound | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | push | past | grown boys and little girls | forward, shyly property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | gaze | to-infinitive | grown boys and little girls not said here | on the wonderful kantele | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on kantele=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hear | to-infinitive | grown boys and little girls not said here | kantele's sweet music | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus |
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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