The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 71
Then, with ease and quickness, he squirmed and glided, this way, that way, through the broken meshes and between the nets so cunningly spread.
Who acts: Wainamoinen · What happens: squirm, glide, break, spread · To what, where: way, broken meshes
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 squirmed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 ease | case |
| 4 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 squirmed | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 quickness | cc |
| 6 | quickness | quickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ease | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ease | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 squirmed | nsubj |
| 9 | squirmed | squirm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 glided | cc |
| 11 | glided | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 squirmed | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 way | punct |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 way | det |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 glided | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 way | punct |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 way | det |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 way | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 meshes | punct |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 meshes | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 meshes | det |
| 21 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 meshes | amod |
| 22 | meshes | mesh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 glided | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 nets | cc |
| 24 | between | between | ADP | _ | 26 nets | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 nets | det |
| 26 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 meshes | conj |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 spread | advmod |
| 28 | cunningly | cunningly | ADV | _ | 29 spread | advmod |
| 29 | spread | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 glided | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 squirmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squirm | past | Wainamoinen | then | with ease and quickness | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | glide | past | Wainamoinen not said here | this way and that way | the broken meshes and the nets | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent way=Theme through mesh=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | spread | infinitive | Wainamoinen not said here | cunningly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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