The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 24
Then a mighty tempest came hurtling over the land.
Who acts: mighty tempest · What happens: come, hurtle · To what, where: land
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tempest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mighty tempest), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tempest | det |
| 3 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tempest | amod |
| 4 | tempest | tempest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | hurtling | hurtle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 came | xcomp |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 land | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 land | det |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hurtling | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a mighty tempest | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hurtle | gerund | a mighty tempest not said here | the land | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over land=Trajectory |
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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