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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 92

She struck with her scythe-like talons; she seized him midway behind his gills; with a mighty effort she drew him from the water and bore him, struggling, helpless, dying, to the topmost branch of a wide-spreading oak.

Who acts: bird · What happens: strike, seize, draw, bear, struggle, die · To what, where: Iron, gills, water

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 (bird), 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

nsubjcasenmod:posscompoundpunctamodoblpunctnsubjparataxisobjobjcasenmod:possoblpunctcasedetamodoblnsubjconjobjcasedetoblccconjobjpunctadvclpunctconjpunctconjpunctcasedetamodoblcasedetamodpunctamodnmodpunctrootShePRONstruckVERBwithADPherPRONscytheNOUN-PUNCTlikeADJtalonsNOUN;PUNCTshePRONseizedVERBhimPRONmidwayNOUNbehindADPhisPRONgillsNOUN;PUNCTwithADPaDETmightyADJeffortNOUNshePRONdrewVERBhimPRONfromADPtheDETwaterNOUNandCCONJboreVERBhimPRON,PUNCTstrugglingVERB,PUNCThelplessADJ,PUNCTdyingVERB,PUNCTtoADPtheDETtopmostADJbranchNOUNofADPaDETwideADJ-PUNCTspreadingVERBoakNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 strucknsubj
2struckstrikeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3withwithADP_8 talonscase
4herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 talonsnmod:poss
5scythescytheNOUNNumber=Sing7 likecompound
6--PUNCT_5 scythepunct
7likelikeADJDegree=Pos8 talonsamod
8talonstalonNOUNNumber=Plur2 struckobl
9;;PUNCT_11 seizedpunct
10sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 seizednsubj
11seizedseizeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 struckparataxis
12himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 seizedobj
13midwaymidwayNOUNNumber=Sing11 seizedobj
14behindbehindADP_16 gillscase
15hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 gillsnmod:poss
16gillsgillNOUNNumber=Plur11 seizedobl
17;;PUNCT_23 drewpunct
18withwithADP_21 effortcase
19aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art21 effortdet
20mightymightyADJDegree=Pos21 effortamod
21efforteffortNOUNNumber=Sing23 drewobl
22sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 drewnsubj
23drewdrawVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 seizedconj
24himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 drewobj
25fromfromADP_27 watercase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 waterdet
27waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing23 drewobl
28andandCCONJ_29 borecc
29borebearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 seizedconj
30himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 boreobj
31,,PUNCT_32 strugglingpunct
32strugglingstruggleVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part29 boreadvcl
33,,PUNCT_34 helplesspunct
34helplesshelplessADJDegree=Pos32 strugglingconj
35,,PUNCT_36 dyingpunct
36dyingdieVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part32 strugglingconj
37,,PUNCT_41 branchpunct
38totoADP_41 branchcase
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 branchdet
40topmosttopmostADJDegree=Pos41 branchamod
41branchbranchNOUNNumber=Sing29 boreobl
42ofofADP_47 oakcase
43aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art47 oakdet
44widewideADJDegree=Pos46 spreadingamod
45--PUNCT_44 widepunct
46spreadingspreadVERBVerbForm=Ger47 oakamod
47oakoakNOUNNumber=Sing41 branchnmod
48..PUNCT_2 struckpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1strikepastbirdwith bird's like talonsvn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with talon=Theme
2seizepastbirdIronIron's gillsmidway objtree rules
3drawpastbirdIronthe waterwith a mighty effortvn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme from water=Initial_Location
4bearpastbird not said hereIronto the topmost branch of a spreading oakvn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5strugglegerundbird not said herevn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6diegerundbird not said herevn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7spreadgerundvn appear-48.1.1 «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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