The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 3
Out-of-doors the storm was raging.
Who acts: doors · What happens: rage
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Recipe. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doors), 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 | Out | out | ADV | _ | 5 doors | advmod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Out | punct |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 doors | case |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 of | punct |
| 5 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 raging | nsubj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 storm | det |
| 7 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 raging | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 raging | aux |
| 9 | raging | rage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 raging | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rage | past · progressive | doors | the storm nsubj | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=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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