The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 27
“Ahti,” he cried, “climb up on the broken mast and look around at the sea and the sky.
Who acts: Ahti · What happens: cry, climb up, break, look around · To what, where: broken mast · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ahti | punct |
| 2 | Ahti | Ahti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ahti | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ahti | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 climb | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 climb | punct |
| 9 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cried | advcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 climb | compound:prt |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 mast | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mast | det |
| 13 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 mast | amod |
| 14 | mast | mast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 climb | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 look | cc |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 climb | conj |
| 17 | around | around | ADV | _ | 16 look | advmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 sea | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sea | det |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 look | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sky | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sky | det |
| 23 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sea | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Ahti | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | climb up in a quote | infinitive | Ahti not said here | the broken mast | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mast=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | break in a quote | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | look around in a quote | infinitive | Ahti not said here | at the sea and the sky; around property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sea=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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