The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 86
No small eagle was she, for her beak was six times longer than the longest boat oar, her talons were like the sharpened scythes of the mowers in the meadows of Hero Land, and her eyes glittered like two great suns glaring down from the top of the sky.
Who acts: small eagle, eagle, talons, eyes, two great suns · What happens: be, sharpen, glitter, glare down · To what, where: eagle
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 eagle, eagle, talons, 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 eagle | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eagle | amod |
| 3 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 she | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 she | cop |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 oar | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 she | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 beak | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 beak | nmod:poss |
| 9 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 oar | obl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 oar | cop |
| 11 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 times | nummod |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 longer | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 oar | advmod |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 oar | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 oar | det |
| 16 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 oar | amod |
| 17 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 oar | compound |
| 18 | oar | oar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 scythes | punct |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 talons | nmod:poss |
| 21 | talons | talon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 scythes | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 scythes | cop |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 scythes | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 scythes | det |
| 25 | sharpened | sharpen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 scythes | amod |
| 26 | scythes | scythe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 oar | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 mowers | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 mowers | det |
| 29 | mowers | mower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 scythes | nmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 meadows | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 meadows | det |
| 32 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 mowers | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Hero | case |
| 34 | Hero | Hero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 meadows | nmod |
| 35 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Hero | flat |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 glittered | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 glittered | cc |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 39 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 glittered | nsubj |
| 40 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 oar | conj |
| 41 | like | like | ADP | _ | 44 suns | case |
| 42 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 suns | nummod |
| 43 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 suns | amod |
| 44 | suns | sun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 glittered | obl |
| 45 | glaring | glare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 44 suns | acl |
| 46 | down | down | ADV | _ | 45 glaring | advmod |
| 47 | from | from | ADP | _ | 49 top | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 top | det |
| 49 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 glaring | obl |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 sky | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 sky | det |
| 52 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 top | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 oar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | no small eagle | eagle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | eagle | than the longest boat oar and the sharpened scythes; for eagle's beak; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sharpen | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | eagle's talons | like the sharpened scythes; of the mowers in the meadows of Hero | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | glitter | past | eagle's eyes | like two great suns | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | glare down | gerund | two great suns not said here | from the top of the sky; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from top=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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