The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 86
He waved his arms and shouted—he shouted so loudly that the sound was heard far across the water.
Who acts: chin · What happens: wave, shout, hear · To what, where: arms, sound, water
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 (chin), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 waved | nsubj |
| 2 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 arms | nmod:poss |
| 4 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 waved | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 shouted | cc |
| 6 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waved | conj |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 shouted | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 shouted | nsubj |
| 9 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waved | conj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 loudly | advmod |
| 11 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 9 shouted | advmod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 heard | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sound | det |
| 14 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 heard | aux:pass |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 shouted | advcl |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 heard | advmod |
| 18 | across | across | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 water | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heard | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | past | chin | chin's arms | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | chin not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | past | chin | loudly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | hear | past · passive | the sound | the water | far property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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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