The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 70
He uttered still another magic spell, and suddenly his body became slender and sinuous like that of an eel or water-serpent.
Who acts: Wainamoinen, body · What happens: utter, become · To what, where: magic spell
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, body), 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 uttered | nsubj |
| 2 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 2 uttered | advmod |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 spell | det |
| 5 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spell | amod |
| 6 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 uttered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 became | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 became | cc |
| 9 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 12 became | advmod |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 body | nmod:poss |
| 11 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 became | nsubj |
| 12 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 uttered | conj |
| 13 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 became | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sinuous | cc |
| 15 | sinuous | sinuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 slender | conj |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 that | case |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 sinuous | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 eel | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 eel | det |
| 20 | eel | eel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 that | nmod |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 serpent | cc |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 serpent | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 water | punct |
| 24 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 eel | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utter speech: other | past | Wainamoinen | another magic spell | still | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent spell=Topic | |||
| 2 | become | past | Wainamoinen's body | slender, suddenly property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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