The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 60
Instantly a hundred swordsmen were at her side, a thousand spearsmen answered her call.
Who acts: hundred swordsmen, thousand spearsmen, Loud · What happens: be, answer, call · To what, where: side, call · 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 (hundred swordsmen, thousand spearsmen, Loud), 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 | Instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 8 side | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 swordsmen | det |
| 3 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 swordsmen | nummod |
| 4 | swordsmen | swordsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 side | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 side | cop |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 side | nmod:poss |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spearsmen | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 thousand | det |
| 11 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 spearsmen | nummod |
| 12 | spearsmen | spearsmen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 answered | nsubj |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 call | nmod:poss |
| 15 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a hundred swordsmen | Loud's side | Loud nmod:poss; instantly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | thousand spearsmen | Loud's call | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent call=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | call | Loud | nom call «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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