The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 33
Lazy bears went ambling through the rocky places; wolves rushed madly over the oozy marshlands; and timid deer ran and leaped among the trees.
Who acts: Lazy bears, wolves, timid deer · What happens: go, amble, rush, run, leap · To what, where: rocky places, oozy marshlands
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 (Lazy bears, wolves, timid deer), 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 | Lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bears | amod |
| 2 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ambling | amble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 went | xcomp |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 places | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 places | det |
| 7 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 places | amod |
| 8 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ambling | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 rushed | punct |
| 10 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rushed | nsubj |
| 11 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | madly | madly | ADV | _ | 11 rushed | advmod |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 marshlands | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 marshlands | det |
| 15 | oozy | oozy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 marshlands | amod |
| 16 | marshlands | marshland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rushed | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 ran | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ran | cc |
| 19 | timid | timid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 deer | amod |
| 20 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 ran | nsubj |
| 21 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 leaped | cc |
| 23 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 ran | conj |
| 24 | among | among | ADP | _ | 26 trees | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 trees | det |
| 26 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 leaped | obl:agent |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Lazy bears | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | amble | gerund | Lazy bears not said here | the rocky places | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through place=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | rush | past | wolves | the oozy marshlands | madly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over marshland=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | run | past | timid deer | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | leap | participle | timid deer not said here | the trees obl:agent | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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