The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 82
Suddenly from amid the darkness the Great Pike came swimming.
Who acts: Great Pike · What happens: come, swim · To what, where: darkness
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 (Great Pike), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 darkness | advmod |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 amid | case |
| 3 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Suddenly | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 darkness | det |
| 5 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Pike | det |
| 7 | Great | Great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Pike | amod |
| 8 | Pike | Pike | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 came | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Great Pike | the darkness | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swim | gerund | the Great Pike not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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