The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 89
And their mother, the Wave Mistress, terror of seafaring men, raised herself from the billows and listened.
Who acts: mother · What happens: raise, listen · To what, where: Mistress, billows
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 (mother), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 raised | cc |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 raised | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mistress | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Mistress | det |
| 6 | Wave | Wave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Mistress | compound |
| 7 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mother | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 terror | punct |
| 9 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Mistress | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 men | case |
| 11 | seafaring | seafaring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 men | compound |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 terror | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mother | punct |
| 14 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 raised | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 billows | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 billows | det |
| 18 | billows | billow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 raised | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 listened | cc |
| 20 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 raised | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | nymphs's mother and the Wave Mistress | Mistress | the billows | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme from billow=Destination | |||
| 2 | listen | past | nymphs's mother and the Wave Mistress not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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