The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 19
He will seize the best one of all our birdlings—the rosiest, the whitest, the sweetest-voiced, the shapeliest.
Who acts: eagle · What happens: seize, voice · To what, where: best one
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Bridegroom’s Triumph. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seize | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 seize | aux |
| 3 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 one | amod |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seize | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 birdlings | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 birdlings | det:predet |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 birdlings | nmod:poss |
| 10 | birdlings | birdling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 rosiest | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rosiest | det |
| 13 | rosiest | rosy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 seize | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 whitest | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 whitest | det |
| 16 | whitest | white | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 rosiest | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sweetest | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sweetest | det |
| 19 | sweetest | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 rosiest | conj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 sweetest | punct |
| 21 | voiced | voice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 sweetest | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 shapeliest | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 shapeliest | det |
| 24 | shapeliest | shapely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 rosiest | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seize | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | future | eagle | the best one of our birdlings | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | voice speech: other | participle | eagle not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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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