The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 103
The raven heard him and flew down, snapping with his sharp beak and trying to gather up the tears.
Who acts: raven · What happens: hear, fly down, snap, try, gather up · To what, where: Wainamoinen, tears
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (raven), 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 raven | det |
| 2 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 flew | cc |
| 6 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 flew | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 snapping | punct |
| 9 | snapping | snap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 flew | advcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 beak | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 beak | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beak | amod |
| 13 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 snapping | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 trying | cc |
| 15 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 snapping | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 gather | mark |
| 17 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 trying | xcomp |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 gather | compound:prt |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tears | det |
| 20 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gather | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the raven | Wainamoinen | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fly down | past | the raven not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | snap | gerund | the raven not said here | with Wainamoinen's sharp beak | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with beak=Theme | ||||
| 4 | try | gerund | the raven not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | gather up not said to happen | to-infinitive | the raven not said here | the tears | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Theme |
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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