The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 7
Silent as the moon among the clouds he moved on tiptoes cautiously between the rows of slumbering people.
Who acts: Minstrel, rows · What happens: move, slumber · To what, where: clouds, tiptoes, people
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 (Minstrel, rows), 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 | Silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 moon | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moon | det |
| 4 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Silent | obl |
| 5 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 clouds | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 clouds | det |
| 7 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Silent | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 moved | nsubj |
| 9 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 clouds | acl:relcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 tiptoes | case |
| 11 | tiptoes | tiptoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 moved | obl |
| 12 | cautiously | cautiously | ADV | _ | 15 rows | advmod |
| 13 | between | between | ADP | _ | 15 rows | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rows | det |
| 15 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tiptoes | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 slumbering | mark |
| 17 | slumbering | slumber | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 rows | acl |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 slumbering | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Silent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | Minstrel | the clouds not said here | tiptoes between the rows | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme | |||
| 2 | slumber | gerund | the rows not said here | people | 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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