The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 77
The eagle left her fledglings in her lofty eyry and came to listen to the hero’s playing.
Who acts: eagle, hero · What happens: leave, come, listen, play · To what, where: fledglings, lofty eyry
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 (eagle, hero), 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 | 2 eagle | det |
| 2 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fledglings | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fledglings | fledgling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 eyry | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyry | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eyry | amod |
| 9 | eyry | eyry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 listen | mark |
| 13 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 came | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 playing | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hero | det |
| 16 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 playing | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 hero | case |
| 18 | playing | playing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 listen | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the eagle | eagle's fledglings | eagle's lofty eyry | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fledgling=Theme in eyry=Location | |||
| 2 | come | past | the eagle not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | listen | to-infinitive | the eagle not said here | to the hero's playing | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to playing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | play | the hero | nom playing «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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