The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 30
Wild with terror, he hurried on, hiding himself in the woods and under the roots of trees, and resting at last in reedy marshes where swans build their nests and wild geese rear their young.
Who acts: Wild terror, swans, wild geese · What happens: hurry on, hide, rest, build, rear · To what, where: terror, woods, last, nests, young
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 (Wild terror, swans, wild geese), 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 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 terror | amod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 terror | case |
| 3 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hurried | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 terror | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hurried | nsubj |
| 6 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 hurried | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hiding | punct |
| 9 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 hurried | advcl |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 hiding | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 woods | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woods | det |
| 13 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hiding | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 roots | cc |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 roots | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 roots | det |
| 17 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 woods | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 trees | case |
| 19 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 roots | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 resting | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 resting | cc |
| 22 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 hurried | advcl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 last | case |
| 24 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 resting | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 marshes | case |
| 26 | reedy | reedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 marshes | amod |
| 27 | marshes | marsh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 resting | obl |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 build | advmod |
| 29 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 build | nsubj |
| 30 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 marshes | acl:relcl |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 nests | nmod:poss |
| 32 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 build | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 rear | cc |
| 34 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 geese | amod |
| 35 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 rear | nsubj |
| 36 | rear | rear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 build | conj |
| 37 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 young | nmod:poss |
| 38 | young | young | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 rear | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry on | past | Wild terror | terror nsubj | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hide | gerund | Wild terror not said here | terror | the woods and the roots of trees | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in wood=Location | |||
| 3 | rest | gerund | Wild terror not said here | last | in reedy marshes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | |||
| 4 | build | present | swans | swans's nests | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product | ||||
| 5 | rear | present | wild geese | swans's young | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Patient |
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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