The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 51
The head of the pike was brought, and all examined its huge scales, its staring eyes, its sharp-pointed teeth.
What happens: bring, examine, stare · To what, where: head, huge scales
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 head | det |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 pike | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pike | det |
| 5 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 head | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brought | aux:pass |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 examined | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 examined | cc |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 examined | advmod |
| 11 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brought | conj |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 scales | nmod:poss |
| 13 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 scales | amod |
| 14 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 examined | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 eyes | punct |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | staring | stare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 eyes | amod |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 scales | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 teeth | punct |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 21 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 pointed | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 sharp | punct |
| 23 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 teeth | amod |
| 24 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 scales | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | the head of the pike | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | examine | past | head's huge scales and head's staring eyes and head's pointed teeth | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scale=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stare | gerund | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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