The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 68
It is fine sport to lay traps for those red-beaked waterfowl, and better still to shoot them on the wing.
Who acts: water · What happens: be, lay, beak, shoot · To what, where: fine sport, traps, wing
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sport | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sport | cop |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sport | amod |
| 4 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 lay | mark |
| 6 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sport | acl |
| 7 | traps | trap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lay | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 waterfowl | case |
| 9 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 waterfowl | det |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 beaked | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 red | punct |
| 12 | beaked | beak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 waterfowl | amod |
| 13 | waterfowl | waterfowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shoot | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 shoot | cc |
| 16 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 still | advmod |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 shoot | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 shoot | mark |
| 19 | shoot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 sport | parataxis |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 shoot | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 wing | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wing | det |
| 23 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shoot | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sport | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | water | fine sport | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay | to-infinitive | traps | for that beaked waterfowl | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent trap=Result for waterfowl=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | beak | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | shoot | to-infinitive | traps = trap | the wing | still | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme on wing=Destination |
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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