The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 84
Fiercely he dashed through the water, high into the air he leaped, thinking to seize and swallow Ilmarinen.
Who acts: pike · What happens: dash, leap, think, seize, swallow · To what, where: water, air, Ilmarinen
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 (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 | Fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 3 dashed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dashed | nsubj |
| 3 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dashed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 high | punct |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 water | amod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 air | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 air | det |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 high | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 leaped | nsubj |
| 13 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 air | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thinking | punct |
| 15 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 dashed | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 seize | mark |
| 17 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 thinking | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 swallow | cc |
| 19 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 seize | conj |
| 20 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 swallow | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dash | past | pike | the water | fiercely property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through water=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | leap | past | pike | the air not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme air=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | pike not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | seize | to-infinitive | pike not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | swallow | infinitive | pike not said here | Ilmarinen | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ilmarinen=Patient |
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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