The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 153
The heroes sprang up and shouted for joy; they had forgotten their fears.
Who acts: heroes, fogs · What happens: spring up, shout, forget, fear · To what, where: fears
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 (heroes, fogs), 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 | 2 heroes | det |
| 2 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sprang | nsubj |
| 3 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 sprang | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 shouted | cc |
| 6 | shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sprang | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 joy | case |
| 8 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shouted | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 forgotten | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 forgotten | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 forgotten | aux |
| 12 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 sprang | conj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fears | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fears | fear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 forgotten | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up | past | the heroes | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | participle | the heroes not said here | for joy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for joy=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | forget | past · perfect | fogs = fog | fogs's fears | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fear | fogs = fog | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=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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