The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 146
And the lively Ahti, still sprawling prone upon the high deck, lifted up his voice also and prayed to his god, the great bird of the mountains:
Who acts: lively Ahti · What happens: sprawl, lift up, pray · To what, where: prone, high deck, voice
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lively Ahti), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lifted | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Ahti | det |
| 3 | lively | lively | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Ahti | amod |
| 4 | Ahti | Ahti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 lifted | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sprawling | punct |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 sprawling | advmod |
| 7 | sprawling | sprawl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 Ahti | acl |
| 8 | prone | prone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sprawling | obj |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 deck | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 deck | det |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 deck | amod |
| 12 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sprawling | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ahti | punct |
| 14 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 lifted | compound:prt |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 voice | nmod:poss |
| 17 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lifted | obj |
| 18 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 lifted | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 prayed | cc |
| 20 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lifted | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 god | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 god | nmod:poss |
| 23 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 prayed | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bird | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bird | det |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bird | amod |
| 27 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 god | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 mountains | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 mountains | det |
| 30 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 bird | nmod |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sprawl | gerund | the lively Ahti not said here | prone | the high deck | still | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent prone=Theme upon deck=Destination | ||
| 2 | lift up | past | the lively Ahti | Ahti's voice | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pray | past | the lively Ahti not said here | to Ahti's god and the great bird of the mountains | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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