The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 97
Why do you devour the fish that you were created to capture?
Who acts: you · What happens: devour, create, capture · To what, where: fish
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 (you), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 devour | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 devour | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 devour | nsubj |
| 4 | devour | devour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fish | det |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 devour | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 created | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 created | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 created | aux:pass |
| 10 | created | create | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 fish | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 capture | mark |
| 12 | capture | capture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 created | xcomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 devour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | devour | present · do-support | you | the fish | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | ||||
| 2 | create | past · passive | the fish | you nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | capture | to-infinitive | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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