The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 100
He held it, hissing and screeching, under the water into which the poisons had been poured.
Who acts: Smith · What happens: hold, hiss, screech, pour · To what, where: bar, water, poisons
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Smith), 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 held | nsubj |
| 2 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 held | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hissing | punct |
| 5 | hissing | hiss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 held | advcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 screeching | cc |
| 7 | screeching | screech | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 hissing | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 water | punct |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hissing | obl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 poured | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 poisons | det |
| 15 | poisons | poison | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 poured | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 poured | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 poured | aux:pass |
| 18 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 water | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | Smith | bar | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hiss | gerund | Smith not said here | the water | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under water=Location | ||||
| 3 | screech | gerund | Smith not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pour | past · perfect · passive | the poisons | the water | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme into which=Destination |
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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