The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 37
“Hail to you, heroes!” she said, as they paused beside her dwelling and silence fell upon the company.
Who acts: Hail, silence · What happens: say, pause, fall · To what, where: dwelling, company · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Hail, silence), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hail | punct |
| 2 | Hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 you | case |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Hail | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 heroes | punct |
| 6 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Hail | conj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hail | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hail | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 paused | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 paused | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 paused | nsubj |
| 14 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 15 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 17 dwelling | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 dwelling | nmod:poss |
| 17 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 paused | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fell | cc |
| 19 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | nsubj |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 paused | conj |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 company | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 company | det |
| 23 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Hail to you and heroes | Dame nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pause | past | Hail | Dame's dwelling | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside dwelling=Location | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | silence | the company | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon company=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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