The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 25
The heroes pressed forward to the entrance, eager to see what the cave contained; and lo! as they looked within, they saw the Sampo with its lid of many colors standing in its place in the middle of the strongly built prison.
Who acts: heroes, doors, many colors · What happens: press forward, see, contain, look, stand, build · To what, where: cave, Sampo, place
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, doors, many colors), 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 pressed | nsubj |
| 3 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 3 pressed | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 entrance | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 entrance | det |
| 7 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pressed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eager | punct |
| 9 | eager | eager | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 entrance | amod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 eager | xcomp |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 see | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cave | det |
| 14 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 what | nsubj |
| 15 | contained | contain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 cave | acl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 looked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 looked | cc |
| 18 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 22 looked | discourse |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 lo | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 looked | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 looked | nsubj |
| 22 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pressed | conj |
| 23 | within | within | ADP | _ | 26 saw | mark |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 within | punct |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 saw | nsubj |
| 26 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 looked | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Sampo | det |
| 28 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 saw | obj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 lid | case |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 lid | nmod:poss |
| 31 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 saw | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 colors | case |
| 33 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 colors | amod |
| 34 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 lid | nmod |
| 35 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 colors | acl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 place | case |
| 37 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 place | nmod:poss |
| 38 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 standing | obl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 middle | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 middle | det |
| 41 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 place | nmod |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 prison | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 prison | det |
| 44 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 45 built | advmod |
| 45 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 prison | amod |
| 46 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 middle | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press forward | past | the heroes | to the entrance; forward property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the heroes not said here | what the cave obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | contain | participle | the cave not said here | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | look | past | doors = door | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | see | past | doors = door | the Sampo | with cave's lid of many colors | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sampo=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | stand | gerund | many colors not said here | cave's place in the middle of the built prison | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location | ||||
| 7 | build | participle | strongly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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