The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 76
They flew backwards and forwards, soared in circles, and paused with outstretched pinions, looking down to enjoy the wondrous melodies.
Who acts: birds · What happens: fly, soar, pause, look down, enjoy · To what, where: wondrous melodies
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 (birds), 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 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 2 flew | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 soared | cc |
| 5 | forwards | forwards | ADV | _ | 7 soared | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 soared | punct |
| 7 | soared | soar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 flew | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 circles | case |
| 9 | circles | circle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 soared | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 paused | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 paused | cc |
| 12 | paused | pause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 flew | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 pinions | case |
| 14 | outstretched | outstretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pinions | amod |
| 15 | pinions | pinion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 paused | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looking | punct |
| 17 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 paused | advcl |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 looking | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 enjoy | mark |
| 20 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 looking | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 melodies | det |
| 22 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 melodies | amod |
| 23 | melodies | melody | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 enjoy | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | birds = bird | backwards property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | soar | participle | birds = bird not said here | in circles; forwards property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in circle=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | pause | participle | birds = bird not said here | with outstretched pinions | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | look down | gerund | birds = bird not said here | down property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | enjoy | to-infinitive | birds = bird not said here | the wondrous melodies | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer melody=Stimulus |
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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