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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 70

And Anniki, maid of the morning, flees shrieking through the gateway, is seized by cruel jaws, is devoured—no magic skill of hers availing to avert her doom.

Who acts: Anniki, cruel jaws, magic skill, maid · What happens: flee, shriek, seize, devour, avail, avert · To what, where: gateway, Anniki, magic skill, doom

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anniki, cruel jaws, magic skill, maid), 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

ccnsubj:passpunctapposcasedetnmodpunctacl:relclxcompcasedetoblpunctaux:passcaseamodoblpunctaux:passconjpunctdetamodoblcasenmodaclmarkxcompnmod:possobjpunctrootAndCCONJAnnikiPROPN,PUNCTmaidNOUNofADPtheDETmorningNOUN,PUNCTfleesVERBshriekingVERBthroughADPtheDETgatewayNOUN,PUNCTisAUXseizedVERBbyADPcruelADJjawsNOUN,PUNCTisAUXdevouredVERB—PUNCTnoDETmagicADJskillNOUNofADPhersPRONavailingVERBtoPARTavertVERBherPRONdoomNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_16 seizedcc
2AnnikiAnnikiPROPNNumber=Sing16 seizednsubj:pass
3,,PUNCT_4 maidpunct
4maidmaidNOUNNumber=Sing2 Annikiappos
5ofofADP_7 morningcase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 morningdet
7morningmorningNOUNNumber=Sing4 maidnmod
8,,PUNCT_9 fleespunct
9fleesfleeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 Annikiacl:relcl
10shriekingshriekVERBVerbForm=Ger9 fleesxcomp
11throughthroughADP_13 gatewaycase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 gatewaydet
13gatewaygatewayNOUNNumber=Sing10 shriekingobl
14,,PUNCT_2 Annikipunct
15isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin16 seizedaux:pass
16seizedseizeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
17bybyADP_19 jawscase
18cruelcruelADJDegree=Pos19 jawsamod
19jawsjawNOUNNumber=Plur16 seizedobl
20,,PUNCT_22 devouredpunct
21isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin22 devouredaux:pass
22devoureddevourVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass16 seizedconj
23—-PUNCT_26 skillpunct
24nonoDETPronType=Neg26 skilldet
25magicmagicADJDegree=Pos26 skillamod
26skillskillNOUNNumber=Sing22 devouredobl
27ofofADP_28 herscase
28hersherPRONGender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 skillnmod
29availingavailVERBVerbForm=Ger26 skillacl
30totoPART_31 avertmark
31avertavertVERBVerbForm=Inf29 availingxcomp
32herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs33 doomnmod:poss
33doomdoomNOUNNumber=Sing31 avertobj
34..PUNCT_16 seizedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1fleepresentAnniki not said heretree rules
2shriekgerundAnniki not said herethe gatewayvn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through gateway=Location
3seizepresent · passivecruel jawsAnnikivn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
4devourpresent · passivecruel jaws not said hereno magic skill of maidvn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»
5availgerundno magic skill of maid not said heretree rules
6avertto-infinitiveno magic skill of maid not said heremaid's doomtree rules
7doommaidnom doom «event transitive»: poss=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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