The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 94
She ripped the scales from the Great Pike’s glistening sides; she tore the fins away; she devoured the long breast and the jointed tail; she sundered the head from the mighty shoulders, cleaving the gills with her iron beak.
Who acts: bird · What happens: rip, glisten, tore away, devour, joint, sunder · To what, where: scales, sides, fins, long breast, head, gills
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ripped | nsubj |
| 2 | ripped | rip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 scales | det |
| 4 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ripped | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Pike | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Pike | det |
| 7 | Great | Great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Pike | amod |
| 8 | Pike | Pike | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ripped | obl |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Pike | case |
| 10 | glistening | glisten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 ripped | advcl |
| 11 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 glistening | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 tore | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tore | nsubj |
| 14 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ripped | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fins | det |
| 16 | fins | fin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tore | obj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 tore | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 devoured | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 devoured | nsubj |
| 20 | devoured | devour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ripped | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 breast | det |
| 22 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 breast | amod |
| 23 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 devoured | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 tail | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tail | det |
| 26 | jointed | joint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 tail | amod |
| 27 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 breast | conj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 sundered | punct |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 sundered | nsubj |
| 30 | sundered | sunder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 devoured | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 head | det |
| 32 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sundered | obj |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 shoulders | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 shoulders | det |
| 35 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 shoulders | amod |
| 36 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 sundered | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 cleaving | punct |
| 38 | cleaving | cleave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 sundered | advcl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 gills | det |
| 40 | gills | gill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 cleaving | obj |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 beak | case |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 beak | nmod:poss |
| 43 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 beak | compound |
| 44 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 cleaving | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ripped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rip | past | bird | the scales | from the Great Pike | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent scale=Patient from pike=Source | |||
| 2 | glisten | gerund | bird not said here | sides | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent side=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tore away | past | bird | the fins | away property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | devour | past | bird | the long breast and the jointed tail | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breast=Patient | ||||
| 5 | joint | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | sunder | past | bird | the head | from the mighty shoulders | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient from shoulder=Co-Patient | |||
| 7 | cleave | gerund | bird not said here | the gills | with bird's iron beak | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent gill=Patient with beak=Instrument |
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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