The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 58
She clenched her bony fists and shook them high above her head, calling upon all her people, all her armed men, all her servants, to come quickly in their might and drive the robbers from the shores of Pohyola.
Who acts: Dame · What happens: clench, shake, call, come, drive · To what, where: bony fists, fists, head, armed men, robbers, shores · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Dame), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 clenched | nsubj |
| 2 | clenched | clench | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fists | nmod:poss |
| 4 | bony | bony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fists | amod |
| 5 | fists | fist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 clenched | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 shook | cc |
| 7 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 clenched | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 shook | obj |
| 9 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 shook | advmod |
| 10 | above | above | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shook | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 calling | punct |
| 14 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 shook | advcl |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 people | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 people | det:predet |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 people | nmod:poss |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 calling | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 men | punct |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 men | det:predet |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 men | nmod:poss |
| 22 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 men | amod |
| 23 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 calling | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 servants | punct |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 servants | det:predet |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 servants | nmod:poss |
| 27 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 men | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 come | punct |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 come | mark |
| 30 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 calling | parataxis |
| 31 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 30 come | advmod |
| 32 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 34 might | mark |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 might | nmod:poss |
| 34 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 come | advcl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 drive | cc |
| 36 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 come | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 robbers | det |
| 38 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 drive | obj |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 shores | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 shores | det |
| 41 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 drive | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 Pohyola | case |
| 43 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 shores | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 clenched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clench | past | Dame | Dame's bony fists | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fist=Patient | ||||
| 2 | shake | past | Dame not said here | fists = fist | Dame's head | high property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme above head=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | call speech: assert | gerund | Dame not said here | Dame's armed men and Dame's servants | upon Dame's people | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | |||
| 4 | come | to-infinitive | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | drive | infinitive | the robbers | the shores of Pohyola | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent robber=Theme from shore=Trajectory |
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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