The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 83
No small fish was he, for his back was seven times longer than the longest boat, his teeth were like great spears set round the entrance to a cavern, and his eyes glowed like two flaming fires on the summit of a mountain.
Who acts: small fish, back, pike, eyes · What happens: be, set, glow, flame · To what, where: pike, great spears
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 (small fish, back, pike, eyes), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 fish | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fish | amod |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 he | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 he | cop |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 spears | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 boat | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 boat | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 back | nmod:poss |
| 9 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 boat | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 boat | cop |
| 11 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 times | nummod |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 longer | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 boat | advmod |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 boat | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boat | det |
| 16 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 boat | amod |
| 17 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 he | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 spears | punct |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 20 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 spears | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 spears | cop |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 spears | case |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 spears | amod |
| 24 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 25 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 spears | acl |
| 26 | round | round | ADP | _ | 28 entrance | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 entrance | det |
| 28 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 set | obl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 cavern | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 cavern | det |
| 31 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 set | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 glowed | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 glowed | cc |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 35 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 glowed | nsubj |
| 36 | glowed | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 spears | conj |
| 37 | like | like | ADP | _ | 40 fires | case |
| 38 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 fires | nummod |
| 39 | flaming | flame | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 fires | amod |
| 40 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 glowed | obl |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 summit | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 summit | det |
| 43 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fires | nmod |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 mountain | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 mountain | det |
| 46 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 summit | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 spears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | no small fish | pike | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | pike's back | for the longest boat; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | pike | like great spears; pike's teeth nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | set | participle | great spears not said here | round the entrance; to a cavern | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | glow | past | pike's eyes | like two flaming fires on the summit of a mountain | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | flame | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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