The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 72
In the marshes the savage wolves awoke and stretched themselves, and then with one accord rushed out and ran with speed to the spot where the kantele was playing.
Who acts: savage wolves, kantele · What happens: awake, stretch, rush out, run, play · To what, where: marshes, wolves
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 (savage wolves, kantele), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 marshes | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 marshes | det |
| 3 | marshes | marsh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 awoke | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wolves | det |
| 5 | savage | savage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wolves | compound |
| 6 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 awoke | nsubj |
| 7 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stretched | cc |
| 9 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 awoke | conj |
| 10 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 stretched | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rushed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rushed | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 rushed | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 accord | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 accord | nummod |
| 16 | accord | accord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rushed | obl |
| 17 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 awoke | parataxis |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 rushed | compound:prt |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ran | cc |
| 20 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 rushed | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 speed | case |
| 22 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ran | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 spot | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 spot | det |
| 25 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ran | obl |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 playing | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 kantele | det |
| 28 | kantele | kantele | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 playing | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 playing | aux |
| 30 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 spot | acl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the savage wolves | the marshes | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in marsh=Location | ||||
| 2 | stretch | past | the savage wolves not said here | wolves = wolf | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | ||||
| 3 | rush out | participle | then | with one accord | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with accord=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | run | past | with speed; to the spot result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to spot=Result | |||||
| 5 | play | past · progressive | the kantele | vn performance-26.7-1 «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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