The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 31
She listened, and presently a voice—a strange and manly voice—was heard above the storm wind’s roar; but still the watch dogs slept and gave no alarm.
Who acts: Louhi, watch dogs, storm wind · What happens: listen, hear, sleep, give, roar · To what, where: voice, roar, alarm
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 (Louhi, watch dogs, storm wind), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 listened | nsubj |
| 2 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 voice | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 voice | cc |
| 5 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 7 voice | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 voice | det |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 listened | obl |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 voice | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 voice | det |
| 10 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 voice | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 manly | cc |
| 12 | manly | manly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 strange | conj |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 voice | conj |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 heard | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 heard | aux:pass |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 listened | conj |
| 17 | above | above | ADP | _ | 22 roar | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wind | det |
| 19 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wind | compound |
| 20 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 roar | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 wind | case |
| 22 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heard | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 slept | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 slept | cc |
| 25 | still | still | ADV | _ | 29 slept | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 dogs | det |
| 27 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dogs | compound |
| 28 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 slept | nsubj |
| 29 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 listened | parataxis |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 gave | cc |
| 31 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 slept | conj |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 alarm | det |
| 33 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gave | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | Louhi | a voice and a strange voice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear | past · passive | Louhi not said here | the storm wind's roar | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» | ||||
| 3 | sleep | past | the watch dogs | still | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | give | past | the watch dogs not said here | no alarm | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alarm=Theme | ||||
| 5 | roar | the storm wind | nom roar «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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