The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 58
The screams of frightened maidens, the moans of the wounded and the dying, the victorious cries of the warriors, and the despairing lamentations of the heroes—all these sounds were mingled in one awful chorus.
Who acts: screams, frightened maidens, warriors · What happens: die, despair, mingle, scream, cry, lament · To what, where: despairing lamentations, one awful chorus, screams, heroes
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 (screams, frightened maidens, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 screams | det |
| 2 | screams | scream | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 maidens | case |
| 4 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 maidens | amod |
| 5 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 screams | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 moans | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 moans | det |
| 8 | moans | moan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 maidens | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 wounded | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wounded | det |
| 11 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 moans | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dying | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dying | det |
| 14 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 maidens | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cries | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cries | det |
| 17 | victorious | victorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cries | amod |
| 18 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 maidens | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 warriors | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 warriors | det |
| 21 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 cries | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 mingled | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 mingled | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 lamentations | det |
| 25 | despairing | despair | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 lamentations | amod |
| 26 | lamentations | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 mingled | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 heroes | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 heroes | det |
| 29 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 lamentations | nmod |
| 30 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 sounds | punct |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 sounds | det:predet |
| 32 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 33 sounds | det |
| 33 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 mingled | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 mingled | aux:pass |
| 35 | mingled | mingle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 screams | acl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 chorus | case |
| 37 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 chorus | nummod |
| 38 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 chorus | amod |
| 39 | chorus | chorus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 mingled | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 screams | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 2 | despair | gerund | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | mingle | past · passive | the screams of frightened maidens and the moans of the wounded and the victorious cries of the warriors not said here | the despairing lamentations of the heroes | one awful chorus | all sounds nsubj:pass | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||
| 5 | scream | frightened maidens and the moans of the wounded and the victorious cries of the warriors | nom scream «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | cry | the warriors | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 7 | lament | the heroes | nom lamentation «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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