The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 134
My very heart thumps wildly as I hear the noise of the mighty tempest.
Who acts: heart, I, mighty tempest · What happens: thump, hear, noise · To what, where: noise
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 (heart, I, mighty tempest), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 heart | nmod:poss |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 heart | advmod |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thumps | nsubj |
| 4 | thumps | thump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | wildly | wildly | ADV | _ | 4 thumps | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 hear | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 hear | nsubj |
| 8 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thumps | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 noise | det |
| 10 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hear | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tempest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tempest | det |
| 13 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tempest | amod |
| 14 | tempest | tempest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 noise | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thumps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thump | present | My heart | wildly property | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | present | I | the noise of the mighty tempest | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | noise | the mighty tempest | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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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