The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 64
Instantly every voice was hushed and every arm was stayed.
What happens: hush, stay · To what, where: voice, arm
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: 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 | _ | 5 hushed | advmod |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 voice | det |
| 3 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hushed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hushed | aux:pass |
| 5 | hushed | hush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stayed | cc |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 arm | det |
| 8 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stayed | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stayed | aux:pass |
| 10 | stayed | stay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hushed | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hush | past · passive | every voice | instantly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | stay | past · passive | every arm | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: subject=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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