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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 100

The armed men formed themselves in battle array, waiting for commands; the old men and the married women hastened to their homes, ashamed of their weakness; the children, too, sought their own firesides, for night was approaching.

Who acts: armed men, children · What happens: form, wait, hasten, seek, approach · To what, where: men, battle array, married women, homes, own firesides

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (armed men, children), 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

detamodnsubjobjcasecompoundoblpunctadvclcaseoblpunctdetamodoblccdetamodconjaclcasenmod:possoblpunctconjcasenmod:possoblpunctdetnsubjpunctadvmodpunctparataxisnmod:possamodobjpunctmarkobl:unmarkedauxadvclpunctrootTheDETarmedADJmenNOUNformedVERBthemselvesPRONinADPbattleNOUNarrayNOUN,PUNCTwaitingVERBforADPcommandsNOUN;PUNCTtheDEToldADJmenNOUNandCCONJtheDETmarriedADJwomenNOUNhastenedVERBtoADPtheirPRONhomesNOUN,PUNCTashamedADJofADPtheirPRONweaknessNOUN;PUNCTtheDETchildrenNOUN,PUNCTtooADV,PUNCTsoughtVERBtheirPRONownADJfiresidesNOUN,PUNCTforSCONJnightNOUNwasAUXapproachingVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 mendet
2armedarmedADJDegree=Pos3 menamod
3menmanNOUNNumber=Plur4 formednsubj
4formedformVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5themselvesthemselvesPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes4 formedobj
6ininADP_8 arraycase
7battlebattleNOUNNumber=Sing8 arraycompound
8arrayarrayNOUNNumber=Sing4 formedobl
9,,PUNCT_10 waitingpunct
10waitingwaitVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part4 formedadvcl
11forforADP_12 commandscase
12commandscommandNOUNNumber=Plur10 waitingobl
13;;PUNCT_16 menpunct
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 mendet
15oldoldADJDegree=Pos16 menamod
16menmanNOUNNumber=Plur4 formedobl
17andandCCONJ_20 womencc
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 womendet
19marriedmarriedADJDegree=Pos20 womenamod
20womenwomanNOUNNumber=Plur16 menconj
21hastenedhastenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass20 womenacl
22totoADP_24 homescase
23theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 homesnmod:poss
24homeshomeNOUNNumber=Plur21 hastenedobl
25,,PUNCT_26 ashamedpunct
26ashamedashamedADJDegree=Pos16 menconj
27ofofADP_29 weaknesscase
28theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 weaknessnmod:poss
29weaknessweaknessNOUNNumber=Sing26 ashamedobl
30;;PUNCT_32 childrenpunct
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 childrendet
32childrenchildNOUNNumber=Plur36 soughtnsubj
33,,PUNCT_34 toopunct
34tootooADV_36 soughtadvmod
35,,PUNCT_34 toopunct
36soughtseekVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 formedparataxis
37theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs39 firesidesnmod:poss
38ownownADJDegree=Pos39 firesidesamod
39firesidesfiresideNOUNNumber=Plur36 soughtobj
40,,PUNCT_44 approachingpunct
41forforSCONJ_44 approachingmark
42nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing44 approachingobl:unmarked
43wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin44 approachingaux
44approachingapproachVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part36 soughtadvcl
45..PUNCT_4 formedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1formpastthe armed menmen = manbattle arraythe old men and the married women oblvn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme
2waitgerundthe armed men not said herefor commandsvn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3hastenparticiplethe married women not said heremen's homesvn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to home=Destination
4seekpastthe childrenmen's own firesidesvn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fireside=Theme
5approachpast · progressivethe children not said herenightvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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