The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 84
On the winding meadow pathway he saw another speck, scarlet, yellow, and blue, moving fleetly towards Pohyola, smoothly gliding like a flying bird.
Who acts: man · What happens: wind, see, move, glide, fly · To what, where: speck, winding meadow pathway, Pohyola
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 (man), 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 | _ | 5 pathway | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pathway | det |
| 3 | winding | wind | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 pathway | amod |
| 4 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pathway | compound |
| 5 | pathway | pathway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 speck | det |
| 9 | speck | speck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 scarlet | punct |
| 11 | scarlet | scarlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 speck | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 yellow | punct |
| 13 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 speck | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 blue | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 blue | cc |
| 16 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 saw | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 moving | punct |
| 18 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 blue | advcl |
| 19 | fleetly | fleetly | ADV | _ | 18 moving | advmod |
| 20 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 21 Pohyola | case |
| 21 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 moving | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 gliding | punct |
| 23 | smoothly | smoothly | ADV | _ | 24 gliding | advmod |
| 24 | gliding | glide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 moving | conj |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 bird | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 bird | det |
| 27 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 bird | amod |
| 28 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gliding | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wind | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | see | past | man | another speck and scarlet | the winding meadow pathway | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer speck=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | move | gerund | man not said here | Pohyola | fleetly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards pohyola=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | glide | gerund | man not said here | like a flying bird; smoothly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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