The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 61
They stood ready to smite and to slay, to drive the intruders into the sea.
Who acts: spearsmen · What happens: stand, smite, slay, drive · To what, where: intruders, sea
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 (spearsmen), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 stood | xcomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 smite | mark |
| 5 | smite | smite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ready | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 slay | cc |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 slay | mark |
| 8 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 smite | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drive | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 drive | mark |
| 11 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 slay | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 intruders | det |
| 13 | intruders | intruder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 drive | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 sea | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drive | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | spearsmen | ready property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | smite | to-infinitive | spearsmen not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | slay | to-infinitive | spearsmen not said here | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | drive | to-infinitive | spearsmen not said here | the intruders | the sea | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent intruder=Theme into sea=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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