The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 26
The road between the gardens was filled with half-grown boys, chattering little girls, shouting young men, singing maidens, hard-working women from the farms, and old men from the fishing boats; and all were using their voices vigorously, excitedly, as though some wonderful thing was happening.
Who acts: maidens, wonderful thing · What happens: fill, grow, chatter, shout, sing, work · To what, where: road, little girls, young men, maidens, women, farms
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 (maidens, wonderful thing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 road | det |
| 2 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | between | between | ADP | _ | 5 gardens | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gardens | det |
| 5 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 road | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 filled | aux:pass |
| 7 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 boys | case |
| 9 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 11 grown | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 half | punct |
| 11 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 boys | amod |
| 12 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 filled | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 chattering | punct |
| 14 | chattering | chatter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 filled | advcl |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 girls | amod |
| 16 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 chattering | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shouting | punct |
| 18 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 chattering | conj |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 men | amod |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 shouting | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 singing | punct |
| 22 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 chattering | conj |
| 23 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 singing | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 working | punct |
| 25 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 working | amod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 hard | punct |
| 27 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 maidens | acl |
| 28 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 working | obj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 farms | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 farms | det |
| 31 | farms | farm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 women | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 men | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 men | cc |
| 34 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 men | amod |
| 35 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 filled | obl |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 boats | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 boats | det |
| 38 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 boats | compound |
| 39 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 men | nmod |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 using | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 using | cc |
| 42 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 using | advmod |
| 43 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 using | aux |
| 44 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 filled | advcl |
| 45 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 voices | nmod:poss |
| 46 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 using | obj |
| 47 | vigorously | vigorously | ADV | _ | 44 using | advmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 excitedly | punct |
| 49 | excitedly | excitedly | ADV | _ | 44 using | advmod |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 happening | punct |
| 51 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 57 happening | mark |
| 52 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 57 happening | mark |
| 53 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 55 thing | det |
| 54 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 thing | amod |
| 55 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 happening | nsubj |
| 56 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 57 happening | aux |
| 57 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 44 using | conj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | the road between the gardens | with grown boys; old men from the fishing boats obl | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with boy=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | grow | participle | half compound | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | chatter | gerund | little girls | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | |||||
| 4 | shout speech: express | gerund | young men | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic | |||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | gerund | maidens | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location maiden=Theme | |||||
| 6 | work | gerund | maidens not said here | women | the farms | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent woman=Material | |||
| 7 | use | past · progressive | men's voices | excitedly, vigorously property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient | ||||
| 8 | happen | past · progressive | some wonderful thing | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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