The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 85
White whales from the icy seas, savage sharks, and squirming eels swam side by side and trembled with emotion.
Who acts: White whales · What happens: squirm, swim, tremble · To what, where: side
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 (White whales), 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 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 whales | amod |
| 2 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 swam | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 seas | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 seas | det |
| 5 | icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 seas | amod |
| 6 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 whales | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sharks | punct |
| 8 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sharks | amod |
| 9 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 seas | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 swam | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 swam | cc |
| 12 | squirming | squirm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 eels | amod |
| 13 | eels | eel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 swam | nsubj |
| 14 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 swam | obj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 side | case |
| 17 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 side | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 trembled | cc |
| 19 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 swam | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 emotion | case |
| 21 | emotion | emotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 trembled | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squirm | gerund | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | swim | past | White whales from the icy seas and savage sharks | side | by side; squirming eels nsubj | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme side=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | tremble | participle | White whales from the icy seas and savage sharks not said here | with emotion | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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