The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 67
The wonder bird spread her wings and Ilmarinen leaped up between them and seated himself upon her back.
Who acts: wonder bird, Ilmarinen · What happens: spread, leap up, seat · To what, where: wings, 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 (wonder bird, Ilmarinen), 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 | 3 bird | det |
| 2 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bird | compound |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | nsubj |
| 4 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wings | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spread | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 leaped | cc |
| 8 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 leaped | nsubj |
| 9 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spread | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 leaped | compound:prt |
| 11 | between | between | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 leaped | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seated | cc |
| 14 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spread | conj |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 seated | obj |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 back | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 back | nmod:poss |
| 18 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seated | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | the wonder bird | bird's wings | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leap up | past | Ilmarinen | between wings = wing | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between they=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | seat | past | the wonder bird not said here | pike | upon bird's back | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value |
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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