The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 73
There they squatted down in orderly rows, their ears pricked up, listening and rejoicing.
Who acts: wolves · What happens: squat down, prick up, listen, rejoice · To what, where: orderly rows, ears
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 (wolves), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 squatted | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 squatted | nsubj |
| 3 | squatted | squat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 squatted | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 rows | case |
| 6 | orderly | orderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rows | amod |
| 7 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 squatted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ears | punct |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 ears | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rows | conj |
| 11 | pricked | prick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 ears | acl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 pricked | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 listening | punct |
| 14 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 squatted | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rejoicing | cc |
| 16 | rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 listening | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 squatted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squat down | past | wolves = wolf | orderly rows and wolves's ears; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location | ||||
| 2 | prick up | participle | wolves's ears not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | listen | gerund | wolves = wolf not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | rejoice | gerund | wolves = wolf not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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