The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 18
She could hear its pictured cover turning, turning—pouring out wealth for all the people.
Who acts: sound, pictured cover · What happens: hear, picture, turn, pour out · To what, where: pictured cover, wealth
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, pictured cover), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | aux |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cover | nmod:poss |
| 5 | pictured | picture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 cover | amod |
| 6 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hear | obj |
| 7 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 hear | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 turning | punct |
| 9 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 turning | conj |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 pouring | punct |
| 11 | pouring | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 turning | advcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 pouring | compound:prt |
| 13 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pouring | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 people | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 people | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 people | det |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pouring | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | could | sound | head's pictured cover | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | picture | participle | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | head's pictured cover not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | turn | gerund | head's pictured cover not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | pour out | gerund | head's pictured cover not said here | wealth | for all people | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wealth=Patient for people=Beneficiary |
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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