The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 27
He ran on, hiding in clefts and chasms, creeping under rocks, and lurking in the dry beds of mountain torrents.
Who acts: Water · What happens: run on, hide, creep, lurk · To what, where: clefts, rocks, dry beds
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 (Water), 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 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 ran | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hiding | punct |
| 5 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 ran | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 clefts | case |
| 7 | clefts | cleft | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hiding | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 chasms | cc |
| 9 | chasms | chasm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 clefts | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 creeping | punct |
| 11 | creeping | creep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 hiding | conj |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 rocks | case |
| 13 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 creeping | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lurking | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lurking | cc |
| 16 | lurking | lurk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 ran | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 beds | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 beds | det |
| 19 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 beds | amod |
| 20 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lurking | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 torrents | case |
| 22 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 torrents | compound |
| 23 | torrents | torrent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 beds | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run on | past | Water | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hide | gerund | Water not said here | clefts and chasms | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cleft=Location | ||||
| 3 | creep | gerund | Water not said here | rocks | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under rock=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | lurk | gerund | Water not said here | the dry beds of mountain torrents | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bed=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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