The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 18
The serpents reared their heads, they ran out of their holes, hissing and dismayed; they were overwhelmed and destroyed; not one remains.
Who acts: serpents · What happens: rear, run, hiss, dismay, overwhelm, destroy · To what, where: heads, holes, serpents
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 (serpents), 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 | 2 serpents | det |
| 2 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reared | nsubj |
| 3 | reared | rear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heads | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reared | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ran | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ran | nsubj |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reared | parataxis |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 holes | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 holes | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 holes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ran | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hissing | punct |
| 14 | hissing | hiss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 ran | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dismayed | cc |
| 16 | dismayed | dismay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ran | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 overwhelmed | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 overwhelmed | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 overwhelmed | aux:pass |
| 20 | overwhelmed | overwhelm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 reared | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 destroyed | cc |
| 22 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 overwhelmed | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 remains | punct |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 remains | advmod |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 remains | nummod |
| 26 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 reared | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rear | past | the serpents | serpents's heads | one remains obl | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 2 | run | past | serpents = serpent | serpents's holes | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out hole=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | hiss | gerund | serpents = serpent not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | dismay | past | serpents = serpent not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | overwhelm | past · passive | serpents = serpent | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | destroy | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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