The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 59

But above every other sound the hoarse cries of the dauntless Mistress were heard, making the earth shudder and causing the deep sea to quake.

Who acts: you, deep sea, dauntless Mistress · What happens: sound, hear, make, cause, quake, cry · To what, where: hoarse cries, earth shudder, deep sea

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 (you, deep sea, dauntless Mistress), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 sound	cc
2	above	above	ADP	_	4 other	case
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 other	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sound	amod
5	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cries	det
7	hoarse	hoarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cries	amod
8	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 heard	nsubj:pass
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 Mistress	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Mistress	det
11	dauntless	dauntless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Mistress	amod
12	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cries	nmod
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 heard	aux:pass
14	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sound	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 making	punct
16	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 heard	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 shudder	det
18	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shudder	compound
19	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 making	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 causing	cc
21	causing	cause	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 making	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sea	det
23	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sea	amod
24	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 causing	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 quake	mark
26	quake	quake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 causing	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sound	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sound	imperative	you not said here		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	hear	past · passive		the hoarse cries of the dauntless Mistress	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	make	gerund		the earth shudder	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shudder=Product
4	cause	gerund		the deep sea	tree rules
5	quake	to-infinitive	the deep sea not said here		vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	cry		the dauntless Mistress		nom cry «communication 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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 59

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 59