The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 35
With all his strength he struck at the fish, thinking to cleave it in twain.
Who acts: Up · What happens: strike, think, cleave · To what, where: fish, twain
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 (Up), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 strength | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 strength | det:predet |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 strength | nmod:poss |
| 4 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 struck | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 struck | nsubj |
| 6 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 fish | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fish | det |
| 9 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 struck | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thinking | punct |
| 11 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 struck | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 cleave | mark |
| 13 | cleave | cleave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thinking | xcomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cleave | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 twain | case |
| 16 | twain | twain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cleave | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | Up | with Up's strength; at the fish | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with strength=Instrument at fish=Patient | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | Up not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cleave | to-infinitive | Up not said here | fish | twain | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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