The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 22
The women jumped up in alarm; but when they saw his pale and weary face they answered, “Welcome, stranger!
Who acts: women, Hail · What happens: jump up, see, answer · To what, where: alarm, pale face
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 (women, Hail), 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 women | det |
| 2 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 jumped | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 alarm | case |
| 6 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 saw | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | parataxis |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 face | nmod:poss |
| 13 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 face | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 weary | cc |
| 15 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pale | conj |
| 16 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 answered | nsubj |
| 18 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 face | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stranger | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 stranger | punct |
| 21 | Welcome | welcome | INTJ | _ | 23 stranger | discourse |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Welcome | punct |
| 23 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | conj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump up | past | the women | alarm | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in alarm=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Hail | Minstrel's pale face | stranger conj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Hail | Minstrel's pale face not said here | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent face=Eventuality |
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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