The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 42
With one tremendous stroke he severed the mighty pike in twain, with another he hewed off its head.
Who acts: Faultless · What happens: sever, hew off · To what, where: mighty pike, twain, head
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 (Faultless), 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 stroke | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 stroke | nummod |
| 3 | tremendous | tremendous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stroke | amod |
| 4 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 severed | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 severed | nsubj |
| 6 | severed | sever | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pike | det |
| 8 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pike | amod |
| 9 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 severed | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 twain | case |
| 11 | twain | twain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 severed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hewed | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 another | case |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 hewed | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hewed | nsubj |
| 16 | hewed | hew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 severed | conj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 hewed | compound:prt |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hewed | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 severed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sever | past | Faultless | the mighty pike | twain | with one tremendous stroke | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pike=Theme | ||
| 2 | hew off | past | Faultless | twain's head | with another | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient with another=Instrument |
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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