The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 104
She hastened to the barnyard; all her favorite cattle were there, not one was missing.
Who acts: Louhi, favorite cattle, one · What happens: hasten, be · To what, where: barnyard
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 (Louhi, favorite cattle, one), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hastened | nsubj |
| 2 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 barnyard | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 barnyard | det |
| 5 | barnyard | barnyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hastened | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 there | punct |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 cattle | det:predet |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 cattle | nmod:poss |
| 9 | favorite | favorite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cattle | amod |
| 10 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 there | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 there | cop |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 hastened | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 missing | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 one | advmod |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 missing | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 missing | cop |
| 17 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 there | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | past | Louhi | the barnyard | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to barnyard=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Louhi's favorite cattle | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | one | missing property | tree rules |
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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