The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 62

Sharp were their appetites, and when they had finished, nothing was left of the mighty head save its bones and its dagger-like teeth which lay scattered on the beach.

Who acts: appetites, like teeth · What happens: finish, leave, save, lay, scatter · To what, where: nothing, bones, beach, Sharp

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 (appetites, like teeth), 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	Sharp	sharp	PROPN	Typo=Yes	root	root
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Sharp	goeswith
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 appetites	nmod:poss
4	appetites	appetite	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 finished	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 finished	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 finished	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 finished	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 finished	aux
10	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Sharp	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 left	punct
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 left	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 left	aux:pass
14	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Sharp	parataxis
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 head	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 head	det
17	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 head	amod
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 left	obl
19	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 left	advcl
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 bones	nmod:poss
21	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 save	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 teeth	cc
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 teeth	nmod:poss
24	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 like	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 dagger	punct
26	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 teeth	amod
27	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bones	conj
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 lay	nsubj
29	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 teeth	acl:relcl
30	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 lay	xcomp
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 beach	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 beach	det
33	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 scattered	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Sharp	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	appetites = appetite				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	leave	past · passive		nothing		of the mighty head	vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Source of head=Destination
3	save	infinitive		head's bones and head's like teeth			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme
4	lay	present	head's like teeth				tree rules
5	scatter	participle	head's like teeth not said here		the beach		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on beach=Destination

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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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 62