The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 25
A great crowd of excited people appeared coming up from the seashore.
Who acts: great crowd · What happens: appear, come up · To what, where: seashore
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 (great crowd), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 crowd | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crowd | amod |
| 3 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 appeared | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 people | case |
| 5 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 people | amod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crowd | nmod |
| 7 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 appeared | xcomp |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 8 coming | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 seashore | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 seashore | det |
| 12 | seashore | seashore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 coming | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | a great crowd of excited people | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | come up | gerund | a great crowd of excited people not said here | the seashore | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from seashore=Initial_Location |
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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