The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 90
Not long, however, was the fight delayed, for soon the furious fish rose again and, swift as lightning, leaped upward to the combat.
Who acts: fight, furious fish · What happens: be, rise, swift, leap · To what, where: lightning, combat
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 (fight, furious fish), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 delayed | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 long | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 delayed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 delayed | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fight | det |
| 8 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 delayed | nsubj |
| 9 | delayed | delay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rose | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 rose | mark |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 rose | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fish | det |
| 14 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fish | amod |
| 15 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rose | nsubj |
| 16 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 delayed | conj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 rose | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 swift | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 swift | punct |
| 20 | swift | swift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 rose | conj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 lightning | case |
| 22 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 swift | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 leaped | punct |
| 24 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 lightning | acl |
| 25 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 24 leaped | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 combat | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 combat | det |
| 28 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 leaped | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 delayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the fight | delay, however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | the furious fish | again | soon property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | swift | present | the furious fish not said here | as lightning | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | leap | participle | lightning not said here | the combat | upward property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to combat=Destination |
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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