The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 60
He swam not far, however, for the nets of wire rose up against him—the nets of twisted metal which the three-fingered wizard had spread to catch him.
Who acts: Wainamoinen · What happens: not swim, rise up, finger, spread, catch · To what, where: nets, fingered wizard, Wainamoinen
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 (Wainamoinen), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 swam | nsubj |
| 2 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 swam | advmod |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 swam | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rose | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 13 rose | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 nets | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 nets | det |
| 10 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rose | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wire | case |
| 12 | wire | wire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nets | nmod |
| 13 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 swam | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 rose | compound:prt |
| 15 | against | against | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rose | obl |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 nets | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 nets | det |
| 19 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rose | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 metal | case |
| 21 | twisted | twisted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 metal | amod |
| 22 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nets | nmod |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 spread | obj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wizard | det |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 fingered | nummod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 three | punct |
| 27 | fingered | finger | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 wizard | amod |
| 28 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 spread | aux |
| 30 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 metal | acl:relcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 catch | mark |
| 32 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 spread | advcl |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 catch | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not swim | past | Wainamoinen | far property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rise up | past | Wainamoinen not said here | the nets of twisted metal | for the nets of wire; against Wainamoinen; however property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against he=Location | |||
| 3 | finger | participle | three nummod | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | spread | past · perfect · passive | the fingered wizard | twisted metal obj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | catch | to-infinitive | Wainamoinen | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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