The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 70
Sharp-eyed lynxes looked out from the foliage of the thickets and drank in the wonderful music.
Who acts: eyed lynxes · What happens: look out, drink · To what, where: foliage, wonderful music
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 (eyed lynxes), 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 | Sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eyed | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sharp | punct |
| 3 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lynxes | amod |
| 4 | lynxes | lynxe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 looked | compound:prt |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 foliage | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 foliage | det |
| 9 | foliage | foliage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 thickets | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thickets | det |
| 12 | thickets | thicket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 foliage | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drank | cc |
| 14 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 music | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 music | det |
| 17 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 music | amod |
| 18 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drank | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | past | eyed lynxes | the foliage of the thickets | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | drink | past | eyed lynxes not said here | the wonderful music | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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