The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 113
When at length he approached his father’s cottage he heard loud groans within—groans of some one suffering deadly pain.
Who acts: pot, suffering deadly pain · What happens: approach, hear, groan · To what, where: cottage, length, loud groans
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Graybeard and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pot, suffering deadly pain), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 approached | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 length | case |
| 3 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 approached | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 approached | nsubj |
| 5 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 heard | advcl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cottage | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 father | case |
| 9 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 approached | obj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 groans | amod |
| 13 | groans | groan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 heard | obj |
| 14 | within | within | ADP | _ | 16 groans | case |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 groans | punct |
| 16 | groans | groan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 heard | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 pain | case |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 pain | det |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 suffering | nummod |
| 20 | suffering | suffering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pain | compound |
| 21 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pain | amod |
| 22 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 groans | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | past | pot | pot's father's cottage | length | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme | |||
| 2 | hear | past | pot | loud groans | within groans of some suffering deadly pain | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer groan=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | groan | some suffering deadly pain | nom groan «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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