The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 12
They sprang forward by tens and by hundreds, every one eager and impatient to obey her commands.
Who acts: robbers, Dame · What happens: sprang, obey, command · To what, where: commands · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Pursuit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robbers, Dame), 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 sprang | nsubj |
| 2 | sprang | sprang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 2 sprang | advmod |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 tens | case |
| 5 | tens | ten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sprang | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hundreds | cc |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 hundreds | case |
| 8 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tens | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 eager | punct |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 eager | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eager | compound |
| 12 | eager | eager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tens | appos |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 impatient | cc |
| 14 | impatient | impatient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eager | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 obey | mark |
| 16 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 impatient | xcomp |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 commands | nmod:poss |
| 18 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 obey | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sprang | present | robbers = robber | by tens and hundreds; forward property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | obey | to-infinitive | robbers = robber not said here | Dame's commands | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme | ||||
| 3 | command | Dame | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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