The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 32
“Now spread your nets cunningly wherever a fish may attempt to swim,” said the hag.
Who acts: fish, hag · What happens: spread, attempt, swim, say · To what, where: nets · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hag of the Rock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish, hag), 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 | _ | 3 spread | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 spread | advmod |
| 3 | spread | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 nets | nmod:poss |
| 5 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spread | obj |
| 6 | cunningly | cunningly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spread | xcomp |
| 7 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 attempt | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fish | det |
| 9 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 attempt | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 attempt | aux |
| 11 | attempt | attempt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 spread | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 swim | mark |
| 13 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 attempt | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 spread | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 spread | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hag | det |
| 18 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread in a quote | infinitive | your nets | now | cunningly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location net=Theme | |||
| 2 | attempt in a quote | may | a fish | wherever property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | swim not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | a fish not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the hag | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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