The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 84
The slender pike, the graceful salmon, nimble herrings, all kinds of finny creatures, came crowding to the shore to listen to the songs of Wainamoinen.
Who acts: slender pike, Wainamoinen · What happens: come, crowd, listen, sing
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 (slender pike, Wainamoinen), 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 | 3 pike | det |
| 2 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pike | amod |
| 3 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 salmon | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 salmon | det |
| 6 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 salmon | amod |
| 7 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pike | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 herrings | punct |
| 9 | nimble | nimble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 herrings | amod |
| 10 | herrings | herring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pike | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kinds | punct |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 kinds | det |
| 13 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 herrings | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 creatures | case |
| 15 | finny | finny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 creatures | amod |
| 16 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 kinds | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pike | punct |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | crowding | crowd | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 came | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 shore | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shore | det |
| 22 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 crowding | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 listen | mark |
| 24 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 crowding | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 songs | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 songs | det |
| 27 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 listen | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Wainamoinen | case |
| 29 | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 songs | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the slender pike and the graceful salmon and nimble herrings | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | crowd | gerund | the slender pike and the graceful salmon and nimble herrings not said here | to the shore | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | listen | to-infinitive | the slender pike and the graceful salmon and nimble herrings not said here | to the songs of Wainamoinen | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to song=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sing | Wainamoinen | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/35/84/