The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 5
They beckoned to him, called to him; and he, with right goodwill, climbed up, up, towards the moonlight and the starlight.
Who acts: stars, Ilmarinen · What happens: beckon, call, climb up · To what, where: Ilmarinen, moonlight · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (stars, Ilmarinen), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 beckoned | nsubj |
| 2 | beckoned | beckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 beckoned | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 beckoned | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 called | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 climbed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 climbed | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 climbed | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 goodwill | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 goodwill | case |
| 14 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 goodwill | amod |
| 15 | goodwill | goodwill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 he | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 goodwill | punct |
| 17 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 beckoned | parataxis |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 climbed | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 up | punct |
| 20 | up | up | ADV | _ | 17 climbed | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 moonlight | punct |
| 22 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 24 moonlight | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 moonlight | det |
| 24 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 climbed | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 starlight | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 starlight | det |
| 27 | starlight | starlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 moonlight | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 beckoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beckon | past | stars = star | Ilmarinen | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | Ilmarinen | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | climb up | past | Ilmarinen | the moonlight and the starlight | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards moonlight=Destination |
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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