The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 130
The nimble Ahti, cause of all this trouble, lay prone upon the deck speechless with fright.
Who acts: nimble Ahti · What happens: lay, cause · To what, where: prone, deck, trouble
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 (nimble Ahti), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Ahti | det |
| 2 | nimble | nimble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Ahti | amod |
| 3 | Ahti | Ahti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cause | punct |
| 5 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Ahti | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 trouble | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 trouble | det:predet |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 trouble | det |
| 9 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cause | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lay | punct |
| 11 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | prone | prone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lay | obj |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 deck | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 deck | det |
| 15 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lay | obl |
| 16 | speechless | speechless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 deck | amod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 fright | case |
| 18 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 speechless | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | the nimble Ahti | prone | the deck | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent prone=Theme upon deck=Destination | |||
| 2 | cause | all trouble | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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