The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 105
Not for a moment did the bird of iron pause, nor did she rest in her flight until she reached the distant moon.
Who acts: bird · What happens: not do, rest, reach · To what, where: bird, flight, distant moon
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Great Pike. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 did | advmod |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obl |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bird | det |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 pause | case |
| 9 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pause | compound |
| 10 | pause | pause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bird | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rest | punct |
| 12 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 rest | cc |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 rest | aux |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 rest | nsubj |
| 15 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 did | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 flight | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 flight | nmod:poss |
| 18 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rest | obl |
| 19 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 21 reached | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 reached | nsubj |
| 21 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 rest | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 moon | det |
| 23 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 moon | amod |
| 24 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reached | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past | the bird of iron pause | moment | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | rest | past · do-support | bird | bird's flight | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in flight=Location | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | bird | the distant moon | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent moon=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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