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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 7

He heard the shrieking of the tempest demons; he heard the hail pelting upon the roof and the rain dashing and splashing upon the half-frozen ground; he heard the sea roaring fearfully in the darkness and the mad waves pounding upon the dumb and patient shore.

Who acts: Smith, rain, sea, mad waves · What happens: hear, dash, splash, freeze, roar, pound · To what, where: shrieking, hail pelting, frozen ground, sea, darkness, dumb shore

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 (Smith, rain, sea, mad waves), 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

nsubjdetobjcasedetamodnmodpunctnsubjconjdetcompoundobjcasedetoblccdetconjaclccconjcasedetcompoundpunctamodoblpunctnsubjconjdetobjxcompadvmodcasedetoblccdetamodconjaclcasedetamodccconjoblpunctrootHePRONheardVERBtheDETshriekingNOUNofADPtheDETtempestADJdemonsNOUN;PUNCThePRONheardVERBtheDEThailNOUNpeltingNOUNuponADPtheDETroofNOUNandCCONJtheDETrainNOUNdashingVERBandCCONJsplashingVERBuponADPtheDEThalfNOUN-PUNCTfrozenVERBgroundNOUN;PUNCThePRONheardVERBtheDETseaNOUNroaringVERBfearfullyADVinADPtheDETdarknessNOUNandCCONJtheDETmadADJwavesNOUNpoundingVERBuponADPtheDETdumbADJandCCONJpatientADJshoreNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 heardnsubj
2heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 shriekingdet
4shriekingshriekingNOUNNumber=Sing2 heardobj
5ofofADP_8 demonscase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 demonsdet
7tempesttempADJDegree=Sup8 demonsamod
8demonsdemonNOUNNumber=Plur4 shriekingnmod
9;;PUNCT_11 heardpunct
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 heardnsubj
11heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 heardconj
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 peltingdet
13hailhailNOUNNumber=Sing14 peltingcompound
14peltingpeltingNOUNNumber=Sing11 heardobj
15uponuponADP_17 roofcase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 roofdet
17roofroofNOUNNumber=Sing11 heardobl
18andandCCONJ_20 raincc
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 raindet
20rainrainNOUNNumber=Sing17 roofconj
21dashingdashVERBVerbForm=Ger20 rainacl
22andandCCONJ_23 splashingcc
23splashingsplashVERBVerbForm=Ger21 dashingconj
24uponuponADP_29 groundcase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 grounddet
26halfhalfNOUNNumber=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac28 frozencompound
27--PUNCT_26 halfpunct
28frozenfreezeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass29 groundamod
29groundgroundNOUNNumber=Sing23 splashingobl
30;;PUNCT_32 heardpunct
31hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs32 heardnsubj
32heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 heardconj
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 seadet
34seaseaNOUNNumber=Sing32 heardobj
35roaringroarVERBVerbForm=Ger32 heardxcomp
36fearfullyfearfullyADV_35 roaringadvmod
37ininADP_39 darknesscase
38thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 darknessdet
39darknessdarknessNOUNNumber=Sing35 roaringobl
40andandCCONJ_43 wavescc
41thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art43 wavesdet
42madmadADJDegree=Pos43 wavesamod
43waveswaveNOUNNumber=Plur39 darknessconj
44poundingpoundVERBVerbForm=Ger43 wavesacl
45uponuponADP_50 shorecase
46thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art50 shoredet
47dumbdumbADJDegree=Pos50 shoreamod
48andandCCONJ_49 patientcc
49patientpatientADJDegree=Pos47 dumbconj
50shoreshoreNOUNNumber=Sing44 poundingobl
51..PUNCT_2 heardpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1hearpastSmiththe shrieking of the tempest demonsvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer shrieking=Stimulus
2hearpastSmiththe hail peltingupon the roof and the rainvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer pelting=Stimulus
3dashgerundthe rain not said herevn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4splashgerundthe rain not said herethe frozen groundvn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon ground=Location
5freezeparticiplehalf compoundvn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6hearpastSmiththe seatree rules
7roargerundthe sea not said herethe darkness and the mad wavesfearfully propertyvn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in darkness=Location
8poundgerundthe mad waves not said herethe dumb shorevn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent upon shore=Trajectory
9shriekthe tempest demonsnom shrieking «communication transitive»: of=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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