The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 86
And having said this, the crossbow began to shoot arrows recklessly about to the great peril of the ten serving-men.
Who acts: crossbow · What happens: say, begin, shoot, peril · To what, where: this, arrows, great peril, ten serving men · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crossbow), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 said | aux |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 said | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 crossbow | det |
| 7 | crossbow | crossbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 shoot | mark |
| 10 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shoot | obj |
| 12 | recklessly | recklessly | ADV | _ | 10 shoot | advmod |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 peril | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 peril | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 peril | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 peril | amod |
| 17 | peril | peril | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shoot | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 men | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 men | det |
| 20 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 men | nummod |
| 21 | serving | serving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 men | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 serving | punct |
| 23 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 peril | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund · perfect | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | the crossbow | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | shoot | to-infinitive | the crossbow not said here | arrows | the great peril of the ten serving men | recklessly property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme to peril=Destination | ||
| 4 | peril | the ten serving men | nom peril «state 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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