The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 107
Hastily with her spoon-like beak she gathered them up, she carried them to Wainamoinen and laid them on the grass before him.
Who acts: spinning · What happens: gather up, carry, lay · To what, where: drops, Wainamoinen, grass
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 (spinning), 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 | Hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 9 gathered | advmod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 beak | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 beak | nmod:poss |
| 4 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 like | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoon | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 beak | amod |
| 7 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gathered | obl |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gathered | nsubj |
| 9 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gathered | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 gathered | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 carried | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 carried | nsubj |
| 14 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gathered | parataxis |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 carried | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Wainamoinen | case |
| 17 | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 carried | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 laid | cc |
| 19 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 carried | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 laid | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 grass | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 grass | det |
| 23 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 laid | obl |
| 24 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 laid | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather up | past | spinning | drops = drop | with spinning's like beak; hastily property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Patient with beak=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | carry | past | spinning | drops = drop | Wainamoinen | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to wainamoinen=Destination | |||
| 3 | lay | past | spinning not said here | drops = drop | the grass | before Wainamoinen | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on grass=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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