The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 59
Loud was her voice, stern were her commands, and there was no one who did not hear her.
Who acts: Loud, voice, one · What happens: be, not hear, command · To what, where: voice, one, Loud · 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 (Loud, voice, one), 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 | Loud | Loud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 voice | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 voice | cop |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 voice | nmod:poss |
| 4 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 one | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stern | punct |
| 6 | stern | stern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 voice | conj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | cop |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 commands | nmod:poss |
| 9 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 one | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 was | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 was | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | cop |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 hear | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 hear | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 hear | advmod |
| 19 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 one | acl:relcl |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 hear | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Loud | Loud's voice and stern | stern conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Loud's voice and stern | no one | Loud's commands nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not hear | past · do-support | no one | Loud | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | command | Loud | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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