The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 3
He listened; he could no longer hear the whirring of the wheels or the busy clacking of the pictured cover.
Who acts: spirit, wheels · What happens: listen, hear, clack, picture, whir · To what, where: whirring
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 (spirit, wheels), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 listened | nsubj |
| 2 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 hear | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hear | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 hear | aux |
| 6 | no | no | ADV | _ | 7 longer | advmod |
| 7 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 hear | advmod |
| 8 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 listened | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 whirring | det |
| 10 | whirring | whirring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hear | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 wheels | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wheels | det |
| 13 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 whirring | nmod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 busy | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 busy | det |
| 16 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wheels | conj |
| 17 | clacking | clack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 busy | advcl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 cover | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cover | det |
| 20 | pictured | picture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 cover | amod |
| 21 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 clacking | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | spirit | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hear | could | spirit | the whirring of the wheels | long property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whirring=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | clack | gerund | spirit not said here | of the pictured cover | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | picture | participle | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | whir | the wheels | nom whirring «event 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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