The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 107

And there, on clear summer nights, you may often see her pecking at the stars and scarring the sky with her scythe-like talons.

Who acts: you, bird · What happens: see, peck, scar · To what, where: bird, sky

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 (you, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 there	cc
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 there	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 nights	case
5	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nights	amod
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nights	compound
7	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 there	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 see	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 see	aux
11	often	often	ADV	_	12 see	advmod
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 there	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 see	obj
14	pecking	peck	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 see	xcomp
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 stars	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stars	det
17	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pecking	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 scarring	cc
19	scarring	scar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 pecking	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sky	det
21	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 scarring	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	27 talons	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 talons	nmod:poss
24	scythe	scythe	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 like	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 scythe	punct
26	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 talons	amod
27	talons	talon	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 scarring	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	may	you	bird	often property	tree rules
2	peck	gerund	bird not said here		at the stars	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at star=Patient
3	scar	gerund	bird not said here	the sky	with bird's like talons	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent sky=Destination with talon=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 107

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 107