The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 130
The dwarf Sakko deftly seized the heated branch and held it aloft that all might see the oozing drops.
Who acts: dwarf Sakko, all, oozing · What happens: seize, heat, hold, see, drop · To what, where: heated branch, sap · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarf Sakko, all, oozing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sakko | det |
| 2 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Sakko | amod |
| 3 | Sakko | Sakko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | nsubj |
| 4 | deftly | deftly | ADV | _ | 5 seized | advmod |
| 5 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 branch | det |
| 7 | heated | heat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 branch | amod |
| 8 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 held | cc |
| 10 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seized | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 held | obj |
| 12 | aloft | aloft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 held | xcomp |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 see | mark |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 see | nsubj |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 aloft | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 oozing | det |
| 18 | oozing | oozing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drops | nsubj |
| 19 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | the dwarf Sakko | the heated branch | deftly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme | |||
| 2 | heat | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | hold | past | the dwarf Sakko not said here | sap | aloft property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | see | might | all | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | drop | present | the oozing | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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