The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 33

“In the dark and sluggish river that surrounds the land of Tuonela there lives a monstrous fish, a pike so huge, so scaly, so fierce that all the fishes of the sea obey him.

Who acts: dark river, land, fishes · What happens: surround, live, obey · To what, where: land, monstrous fish, pike

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 (dark river, land, fishes), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 scaly	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	7 river	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 river	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sluggish	cc
6	sluggish	sluggish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dark	conj
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 scaly	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 surrounds	nsubj
9	surrounds	surround	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 river	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 land	det
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 surrounds	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Tuonela	case
13	Tuonela	Tuonela	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 lives	obl
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 lives	expl
15	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 land	acl:relcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 fish	det
17	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fish	amod
18	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lives	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pike	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pike	det
21	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fish	conj
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 huge	advmod
23	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pike	amod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 scaly	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 scaly	advmod
26	scaly	scaly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fierce	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 fierce	advmod
29	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 scaly	conj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 obey	mark
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 fishes	det:predet
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 fishes	det
33	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 obey	nsubj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 sea	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sea	det
36	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fishes	nmod
37	obey	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 fierce	advcl
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 obey	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 scaly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	surround in a quote	present	the dark river	the land			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme land=Co-Theme
2	live in a quote	present	the land not said here	a monstrous fish and a pike	there	of Tuonela	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme fish=Location
3	obey in a quote	present	all fishes of the sea	pike			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 33