The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 99
They shook the sleep-needles from their eyes and looked around, dazed, bewildered, wondering what had happened to them.
Who acts: people · What happens: shake, look around, daze, bewilder, wonder, happen · To what, where: sleep needles, eyes, people · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (people), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shook | nsubj |
| 2 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 needles | det |
| 4 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 needles | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 sleep | punct |
| 6 | needles | needle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 shook | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 eyes | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 shook | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shook | conj |
| 12 | around | around | ADV | _ | 11 looked | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dazed | punct |
| 14 | dazed | daze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 looked | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bewildered | punct |
| 16 | bewildered | bewilder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 dazed | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wondering | punct |
| 18 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 bewildered | advcl |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 happened | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 happened | aux |
| 21 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 wondering | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 happened | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | people | the sleep needles | people's eyes | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent needle=Theme from eye=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | look around | past | people not said here | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | daze | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | bewilder | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 6 | happen | past · perfect | people | what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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