The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 133
He turned this way and that, seeking ease; but at each moment the pain grew greater, and he writhed in anguish.
Who acts: man, pain · What happens: turn, seek, grow, writhe · To what, where: way, ease, anguish
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 (man, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 that | cc |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 way | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seeking | punct |
| 8 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 turned | advcl |
| 9 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seeking | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 grew | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 grew | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 moment | case |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 moment | det |
| 14 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grew | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pain | det |
| 16 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grew | nsubj |
| 17 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | parataxis |
| 18 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 grew | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 writhed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 writhed | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 writhed | nsubj |
| 22 | writhed | writhe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 grew | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 anguish | case |
| 24 | anguish | anguish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 writhed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | man | this way that | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seek | gerund | man not said here | ease | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ease=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | the pain | moment | great property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | writhe | past | man | anguish | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in anguish=Location |
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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