The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 74

Even the lazy bears came ambling from their lurking-places; they climbed upon the rocks and into the trees and sat there in solemn silence, drinking in the bewitching sounds.

Who acts: lazy bears, bears · What happens: come, amble, climb, sit, drink, bewitch · To what, where: lurking places, rocks, solemn silence, bewitching sounds

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 (lazy bears, bears), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	4 bears	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bears	det
3	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bears	amod
4	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	ambling	amble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 came	advcl
7	from	from	ADP	_	11 places	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 places	nmod:poss
9	lurking	lurking	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 places	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 lurking	punct
11	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ambling	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 climbed	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 climbed	nsubj
14	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 rocks	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rocks	det
17	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 climbed	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 trees	cc
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 trees	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 trees	det
21	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 rocks	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sat	cc
23	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 climbed	conj
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 sat	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 silence	case
26	solemn	solemn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 silence	amod
27	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sat	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 drinking	punct
29	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 sat	advcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 sounds	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sounds	det
32	bewitching	bewitch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 sounds	amod
33	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 drinking	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	come	past	the lazy bears		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	amble	gerund	the lazy bears not said here	bears's lurking places	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from place=Trajectory
3	climb	past	bears = bear	the rocks and the trees	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon rock=Trajectory
4	sit	past	bears = bear not said here	solemn silence; there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in silence=Location
5	drink	gerund	bears = bear not said here	the bewitching sounds	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	bewitch	gerund			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/35/74/

🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 74

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 74