The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 93
There she sat, screaming with joy and anon tearing her prey and feasting upon it.
Who acts: bird, anon · What happens: sit, scream, tear · To what, where: prey
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, anon), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 sat | expl |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 screaming | punct |
| 5 | screaming | scream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sat | advcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 joy | case |
| 7 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 screaming | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 anon | cc |
| 9 | anon | anon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 joy | conj |
| 10 | tearing | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 anon | acl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 prey | nmod:poss |
| 12 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tearing | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 feasting | cc |
| 14 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prey | conj |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tearing | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | bird | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | scream speech: express | gerund | bird not said here | with joy and anon | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with joy=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tear | gerund | anon not said here | bird's prey and feasting | upon feasting | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location prey=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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