The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 34
“Who is it that comes on the storm wind’s back, and yet so quietly that he does not rouse nor waken my watch dogs?”
Who acts: wind · What happens: be, not rouse, waken · To what, where: watch dogs
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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 comes | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 comes | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 comes | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 comes | nsubj |
| 6 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 wind | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wind | det |
| 9 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wind | compound |
| 10 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ’s | obl |
| 11 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 comes | conj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 ’s | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 quietly | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 quietly | cc |
| 15 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 17 quietly | advmod |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 quietly | advmod |
| 17 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 6 comes | advmod |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 rouse | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 rouse | nsubj |
| 20 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 rouse | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 rouse | advmod |
| 22 | rouse | rouse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 quietly | advcl |
| 23 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 24 waken | cc |
| 24 | waken | waken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 rouse | conj |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 26 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dogs | compound |
| 27 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 waken | obj |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 comes | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | yet | Who nsubj; turmoil nsubj; that nsubj; come, quietly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not rouse in a quote | present · do-support | wind | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | waken in a quote | infinitive | wind not said here | my watch dogs | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |
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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