The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 87
In many villages it was heard, alarming all the people and filling their hearts with terror.
What happens: hear, alarm, fill · To what, where: sound, many villages, people, hearts
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 villages | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 villages | amod |
| 3 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 heard | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | aux:pass |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 alarming | punct |
| 8 | alarming | alarm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 heard | conj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 people | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 alarming | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 filling | cc |
| 13 | filling | fill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 alarming | conj |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 filling | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 terror | case |
| 17 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 filling | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | sound | many villages | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | alarm | gerund | all people | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | fill | gerund | people's hearts | with terror | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent heart=Patient with terror=Instrument |
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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