The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 89

Suddenly he heard the noise of Ahti’s singing—a noise most strange, most unlike any other that had ever broken the silence of the sea.

Who acts: chin, Ahti · What happens: hear, sing, break, noise, silence · To what, where: noise, most, sea

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, Ahti), 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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	3 heard	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 noise	det
5	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Ahti	case
7	Ahti	Ahti	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 noise	nmod
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Ahti	case
9	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 heard	advcl
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 strange	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 noise	det
12	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 strange	nsubj
13	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 strange	advmod
14	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heard	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 most	punct
16	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 broken	nsubj
17	unlike	unlike	ADP	_	19 other	case
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 other	det
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 most	nmod
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 broken	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 broken	aux
22	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 broken	advmod
23	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 strange	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 silence	det
25	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 broken	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 sea	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sea	det
28	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 silence	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	chin	the noise of Ahti		suddenly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
2	sing speech: express	gerund	chin not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	break	past · perfect · passive		most unlike any other	ever	that nsubj:pass; the silence of the sea obj	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient silence=Result
4	noise		Ahti				nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent
5	silence			the sea			nom silence «state transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 89

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 89