The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 107
Then up flew a pair of ravens, one lighting upon a blasted pine and one taking shelter in a grove of oaks.
What happens: fly, blast, take · To what, where: pair, shelter, grove
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 flew | advmod |
| 2 | up | up | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 flew | expl |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pair | det |
| 5 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ravens | case |
| 7 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pair | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lighting | punct |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 lighting | nummod |
| 10 | lighting | lighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 pine | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pine | det |
| 13 | blasted | blast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 pine | amod |
| 14 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lighting | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 one | cc |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 pine | appos |
| 17 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 one | acl |
| 18 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taking | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 grove | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 grove | det |
| 21 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taking | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 oaks | case |
| 23 | oaks | oak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 grove | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | a pair of ravens | then | one lighting upon a blasted pine obl | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pair=Theme | |||
| 2 | blast | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | take | gerund | shelter | a grove of oaks | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shelter=Value in grove=Location |
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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