The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 20
With a voice like that of a tempest she screamed to her warriors who were clinging to the remains of the wreck: “Make yourselves very small!
Who acts: Mistress, warriors · What happens: scream, cling, make · To what, where: tempest, warriors · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mistress, warriors), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 voice | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 voice | det |
| 3 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 that | case |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 voice | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tempest | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tempest | det |
| 8 | tempest | tempest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 that | nmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 screamed | nsubj |
| 10 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tempest | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 warriors | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 warriors | nmod:poss |
| 13 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 screamed | obl |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 clinging | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 clinging | aux |
| 16 | clinging | cling | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 warriors | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 remains | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 remains | det |
| 19 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 16 clinging | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 wreck | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wreck | det |
| 22 | wreck | wreck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 remains | nmod |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 Make | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Make | punct |
| 25 | Make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 clinging | conj |
| 26 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 Make | obj |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 small | advmod |
| 28 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Make | xcomp |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 voice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | past | Mistress | a tempest not said here | Mistress's warriors | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tempest=Topic to warrior=Recipient | |||
| 2 | cling | past · progressive | Mistress's warriors | to the remains of the wreck | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to remains=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | infinitive | Mistress's warriors not said here | Mistress's warriors = warrior | small property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset yourselves=Product |
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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