The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 150
Then remembering himself, he threw his arms around the Graybeard’s neck and thanked him for his exceeding kindness.
Who acts: trace · What happens: remember, throw, thank, exceed · To what, where: trace, arms, neck
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 (trace), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 remembering | advmod |
| 2 | remembering | remember | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 threw | advcl |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 remembering | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 remembering | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 threw | nsubj |
| 6 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 arms | nmod:poss |
| 8 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 threw | obj |
| 9 | around | around | ADP | _ | 13 neck | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Graybeard | det |
| 11 | Graybeard | Graybeard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 neck | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Graybeard | case |
| 13 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 threw | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thanked | cc |
| 15 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 threw | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thanked | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 kindness | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 19 | exceeding | exceed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 kindness | amod |
| 20 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thanked | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | gerund | trace not said here | trace | then | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 2 | throw | past | trace | trace's arms | the Graybeard's neck | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arm=Theme around neck=Destination | |||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | past | trace not said here | trace | for trace's exceeding kindness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for kindness=Attribute | |||
| 4 | exceed | gerund | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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