The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 32
The Mistress, grim and fearless, spoke up bravely in the darkness, heeding not the dreadful turmoil.
Who acts: Mistress · What happens: speak up, heed · To what, where: darkness, dreadful turmoil
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 (Mistress), 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 | 2 Mistress | det |
| 2 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grim | punct |
| 4 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Mistress | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fearless | cc |
| 6 | fearless | fearless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grim | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mistress | punct |
| 8 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 spoke | compound:prt |
| 10 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 8 spoke | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 darkness | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 darkness | det |
| 13 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spoke | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 heeding | punct |
| 15 | heeding | heed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 spoke | advcl |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 turmoil | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 turmoil | det |
| 18 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 turmoil | amod |
| 19 | turmoil | turmoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heeding | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak up speech: other | past | the Mistress | the darkness | bravely property | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | heed | gerund | the Mistress not said here | the dreadful turmoil | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turmoil=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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