The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 19
It is a fish, a mighty pike that has stopped the vessel.
Who acts: keel, mighty pike · What happens: be, stop · To what, where: fish, vessel
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (keel, mighty pike), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fish | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fish | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fish | det |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pike | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pike | det |
| 7 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pike | amod |
| 8 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fish | appos |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 stopped | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 stopped | aux |
| 11 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 pike | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 vessel | det |
| 13 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stopped | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | keel | a fish | a mighty pike appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stop | present · perfect | a mighty pike | the vessel | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality vessel=Eventuality |
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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