The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 105
The blue duck also heard him and with swift strokes swam to the spot where the tears had fallen.
Who acts: blue duck, tears · What happens: hear, swim, fall · To what, where: raven, spot
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 (blue duck, tears), 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 | 3 duck | det |
| 2 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 duck | amod |
| 3 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 heard | advmod |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 swam | cc |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 strokes | case |
| 9 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 strokes | compound |
| 10 | strokes | stroke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 swam | obl |
| 11 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 spot | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 spot | det |
| 14 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swam | obl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 fallen | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tears | det |
| 17 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fallen | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fallen | aux |
| 19 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 spot | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the blue duck | raven | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | swim | past | the blue duck not said here | the spot | with swift strokes | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to spot=Destination | |||
| 3 | fall | past · perfect | the tears | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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