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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 89

But the eagle, with one foot gripping the rock, struck fiercely at her foe; with her iron beak she tore the scales from the fish’s back, she forced him to retreat into the murky deep.

Who acts: one foot, eagle, hero · What happens: grip, strike, tore, force, retreat · To what, where: rock, scales, hero, murky deep

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 (one foot, eagle, hero), 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

ccdetnsubjpunctcasenummodapposacldetobjpunctadvmodcasenmod:possoblpunctcasenmod:posscompoundoblnsubjparataxisdetobjcasedetoblconjadvmodpunctnsubjconjobjmarkxcompcasedetamodoblpunctrootButCCONJtheDETeagleNOUN,PUNCTwithADPoneNUMfootNOUNgrippingVERBtheDETrockNOUN,PUNCTstruckVERBfiercelyADVatADPherPRONfoeNOUN;PUNCTwithADPherPRONironNOUNbeakNOUNshePRONtoreVERBtheDETscalesNOUNfromADPtheDETfishNOUN’sAUXbackADV,PUNCTshePRONforcedVERBhimPRONtoPARTretreatVERBintoADPtheDETmurkyADJdeepADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_12 struckcc
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 eagledet
3eagleeagleNOUNNumber=Sing12 strucknsubj
4,,PUNCT_7 footpunct
5withwithADP_7 footcase
6oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card7 footnummod
7footfootNOUNNumber=Sing3 eagleappos
8grippinggripVERBVerbForm=Ger7 footacl
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 rockdet
10rockrockNOUNNumber=Sing8 grippingobj
11,,PUNCT_3 eaglepunct
12struckstrikeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
13fiercelyfiercelyADV_12 struckadvmod
14atatADP_16 foecase
15herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 foenmod:poss
16foefoeNOUNNumber=Sing12 struckobl
17;;PUNCT_23 torepunct
18withwithADP_21 beakcase
19herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 beaknmod:poss
20ironironNOUNNumber=Sing21 beakcompound
21beakbeakNOUNNumber=Sing23 toreobl
22sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 torensubj
23toretoreVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 struckparataxis
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 scalesdet
25scalesscaleNOUNNumber=Plur23 toreobj
26fromfromADP_28 fishcase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 fishdet
28fishfishNOUNNumber=Sing29 ’sobl
29’sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin23 toreconj
30backbackADV_29 ’sadvmod
31,,PUNCT_33 forcedpunct
32sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 forcednsubj
33forcedforceVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 struckconj
34himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 forcedobj
35totoPART_36 retreatmark
36retreatretreatVERBVerbForm=Inf33 forcedxcomp
37intointoADP_40 deepcase
38thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art40 deepdet
39murkymurkyADJDegree=Pos40 deepamod
40deepdeepADJDegree=Pos36 retreatobl
41..PUNCT_12 struckpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gripgerundone foot not said herethe rockvn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Experiencer
2strikepastthe eagleat eagle's foe; fiercely propertyvn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at foe=Patient
3torepasteaglethe scaleswith eagle's iron beaktree rules
4forcepasteagleherovn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5retreatto-infinitivehero not said herethe murky deepvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into deep=Initial_Location

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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