The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 16
The warriors shouted and all the crew joined in singing the war-song of Pohyola.
Who acts: warriors, crew, Pohyola · What happens: shout, join, sing · To what, where: war song
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 (warriors, crew, Pohyola), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 warriors | det |
| 2 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shouted | nsubj |
| 3 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 joined | cc |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 crew | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 crew | det |
| 7 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 joined | nsubj |
| 8 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shouted | conj |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 singing | mark |
| 10 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 joined | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 song | det |
| 12 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 song | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 war | punct |
| 14 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 singing | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Pohyola | case |
| 16 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 song | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | the warriors | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | join | past | all crew | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | all crew not said here | the war song of Pohyola | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sing | Pohyola | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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