The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 1
Like a cruel eagle in pursuit of a young falcon the mighty warship of Pohyola sped onward, relentless, pitiless, triumphant.
Who acts: mighty warship · What happens: speed, pursue · To what, where: young falcon
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mighty warship), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 eagle | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 eagle | det |
| 3 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eagle | amod |
| 4 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sped | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 pursuit | case |
| 6 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eagle | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 falcon | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 falcon | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 falcon | amod |
| 10 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pursuit | nmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 warship | det |
| 12 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 warship | amod |
| 13 | warship | warship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sped | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Pohyola | case |
| 15 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 warship | nmod |
| 16 | sped | speed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 16 sped | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 relentless | punct |
| 19 | relentless | relentless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sped | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pitiless | punct |
| 21 | pitiless | pitiless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 relentless | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 triumphant | punct |
| 23 | triumphant | triumphant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 relentless | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 sped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speed | past | the mighty warship of Pohyola | like a cruel eagle in pursuit of a young falcon; onward, relentless property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pursue | a young falcon | nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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