The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 83
Little fishes and large fishes came in shoals and lifted up their heads along the beach to rejoice and wonder.
Who acts: Little fishes · What happens: come, lift up, rejoice, wonder · To what, where: shoals, heads, beach
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 (Little fishes), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fishes | amod |
| 2 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 came | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fishes | cc |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fishes | amod |
| 5 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fishes | conj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 shoals | case |
| 8 | shoals | shoal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 came | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lifted | cc |
| 10 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 lifted | compound:prt |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 heads | nmod:poss |
| 13 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lifted | obj |
| 14 | along | along | ADP | _ | 16 beach | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 beach | det |
| 16 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lifted | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 rejoice | mark |
| 18 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 lifted | advcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wonder | cc |
| 20 | wonder | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 rejoice | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Little fishes and large fishes | shoals | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shoal=Location | ||||
| 2 | lift up | past | Little fishes and large fishes not said here | fishes's heads | the beach | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme along beach=Destination | |||
| 3 | rejoice | to-infinitive | Little fishes and large fishes not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | infinitive | Little fishes and large fishes not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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