The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 134
Instantly the wild beasts leaped upon them with bared claws and gnashing teeth.
What happens: leap, bare, gnash · To what, where: wild beasts, teeth
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 | Instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 4 beasts | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 beasts | det |
| 3 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beasts | amod |
| 4 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 beasts | acl |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 leaped | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 claws | case |
| 9 | bared | bare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 claws | amod |
| 10 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 leaped | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gnashing | cc |
| 12 | gnashing | gnash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 leaped | conj |
| 13 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gnashing | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beasts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | participle | the wild beasts not said here | upon cows = cow; with bared claws | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | bare | participle | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | gnash | gerund | teeth | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
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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