The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 8

As a mother hen summons her chickens around her at the approach of a danger, so did she marshal her swordsmen, her spearsmen, and her stout-hearted oarsmen.

Who acts: mother hen, Dame, danger · What happens: summon, marshal, approach · To what, where: chickens, approach, swordsmen

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Pursuit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother hen, Dame, danger), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 summons	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hen	det
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hen	compound
4	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 summons	nsubj
5	summons	summon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 chickens	nmod:poss
7	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 summons	obj
8	around	around	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 summons	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 approach	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 approach	det
12	approach	approach	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 summons	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 danger	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 danger	det
15	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 approach	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 marshal	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	20 marshal	advmod
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 marshal	aux
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 marshal	nsubj
20	marshal	marshal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 summons	conj
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 swordsmen	nmod:poss
22	swordsmen	swordsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 marshal	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 spearsmen	punct
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 spearsmen	nmod:poss
25	spearsmen	spearsmen	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 swordsmen	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 oarsmen	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 oarsmen	cc
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 oarsmen	nmod:poss
29	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hearted	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 stout	punct
31	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 oarsmen	amod
32	oarsmen	oarsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 marshal	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 summons	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	summon	present	a mother hen		hen's chickens	the approach of a danger	around Dame	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Recipient
2	marshal	past · do-support	Dame	Dame's swordsmen and Dame's spearsmen			Dame's hearted oarsmen obl	tree rules
3	approach		a danger					nom approach «act 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.

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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 8

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 8