The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 70
On the sixth day he dodged one way then another to escape the cruel points of spears and the gleaming blades of battle-axes.
Who acts: planter · What happens: dodge, escape, gleam, point · To what, where: one way, cruel points, spears
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (planter), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | sixth | sixth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dodged | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dodged | nsubj |
| 6 | dodged | dodge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 way | nummod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dodged | obj |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 another | advmod |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 way | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 escape | mark |
| 12 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 way | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 points | det |
| 14 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 points | amod |
| 15 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 escape | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 spears | case |
| 17 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 points | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 blades | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 blades | det |
| 20 | gleaming | gleam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 blades | amod |
| 21 | blades | blade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 points | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 axes | case |
| 23 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 axes | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 battle | punct |
| 25 | axes | ax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 blades | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dodged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dodge | past | planter | one way | day | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent way=Location | |||
| 2 | escape | to-infinitive | planter not said here | the cruel points of spears and the gleaming blades of battle axes | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme point=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | gleam | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | point | spears | nom point «cognition 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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