The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 30
Quickly the long-armed one obeyed.
What happens: obey · To what, where: armed one
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: 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 | Quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 6 one | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 armed | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
| 5 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 one | amod |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 one | acl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | participle | the armed one not said here | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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