The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 23
The astonished Smith dropped his tongs; he threw his hammer down; he ran to greet his unexpected visitor.
Who acts: astonished Smith, Smith · What happens: drop, throw down, run, greet · To what, where: tongs, hammer, unexpected visitor
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (astonished Smith, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Smith | det |
| 2 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Smith | amod |
| 3 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dropped | nsubj |
| 4 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 tongs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | tongs | tong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dropped | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 threw | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 threw | nsubj |
| 9 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dropped | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hammer | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 threw | obj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 threw | compound:prt |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 ran | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ran | nsubj |
| 15 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dropped | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 greet | mark |
| 17 | greet | greet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ran | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 visitor | nmod:poss |
| 19 | unexpected | unexpected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 visitor | amod |
| 20 | visitor | visitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 greet | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | the astonished Smith | Smith's tongs | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tong=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw down | past | Smith | Smith's hammer | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run | past | Smith | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | greet speech: greet | to-infinitive | Smith not said here | Smith's unexpected visitor | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=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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