The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 90
Then with speed she betook herself shoreward, hiding her awful head among the rushes, and there she lay until the music soothed her to deepest slumber.
Who acts: Mistress, music · What happens: betake, hide, lie, soothe · To what, where: Mistress, awful head, rushes
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 (Mistress, music), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 betook | advmod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 speed | case |
| 3 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 betook | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 betook | nsubj |
| 5 | betook | betake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 betook | obj |
| 7 | shoreward | shoreward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 betook | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hiding | punct |
| 9 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 betook | advcl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 head | amod |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hiding | obj |
| 13 | among | among | ADP | _ | 15 rushes | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rushes | det |
| 15 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hiding | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lay | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lay | cc |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 lay | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lay | nsubj |
| 20 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 betook | parataxis |
| 21 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 24 soothed | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 music | det |
| 23 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 soothed | nsubj |
| 24 | soothed | soothe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lay | advcl |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 soothed | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 slumber | mark |
| 27 | deepest | deep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 slumber | amod |
| 28 | slumber | slumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 soothed | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 betook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | betake | past | Mistress | Mistress | then | with speed; shoreward obj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | hide | gerund | Mistress not said here | Mistress's awful head | the rushes | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent head=Patient among rush=Location | |||
| 3 | lie | past | Mistress | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | soothe | past | the music | Mistress | deepest slumber xcomp | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=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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