The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 33
He pushed against the Sampo; he twined his long arms about it and lifted with all his might; he braced himself with his knees and strained till the blood rushed from his mouth and nose.
Who acts: deed, blood · What happens: push, twine, lift, brace, strain, rush · To what, where: long arms, deed, mouth
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 (deed, blood), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pushed | nsubj |
| 2 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | against | against | ADP | _ | 5 Sampo | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Sampo | det |
| 5 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 pushed | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 twined | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 twined | nsubj |
| 8 | twined | twine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pushed | parataxis |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 arms | nmod:poss |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 arms | amod |
| 11 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 twined | obj |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 twined | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lifted | cc |
| 15 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 twined | conj |
| 16 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 19 might | mark |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 might | det:predet |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 might | nmod:poss |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 lifted | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 braced | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 braced | nsubj |
| 22 | braced | brace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pushed | parataxis |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 braced | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 knees | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 knees | nmod:poss |
| 26 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 braced | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 strained | cc |
| 28 | strained | strain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 braced | conj |
| 29 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 32 rushed | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 blood | det |
| 31 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 rushed | nsubj |
| 32 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 strained | advcl |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 mouth | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 35 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 rushed | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 nose | cc |
| 37 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 mouth | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | past | deed | against the Sampo | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against sampo=Theme | ||||
| 2 | twine | past | deed | deed's long arms | about strength | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | |||
| 3 | lift | participle | deed not said here | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | brace | past | deed | deed | with deed's knees | tree rules | |||
| 5 | strain | participle | deed not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | rush | past | the blood | deed's mouth and nose | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from mouth=Trajectory |
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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