The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 19

And lastly, of ten sharp scythes in the ship’s hold she formed talons for herself, fierce, curved fingers, ending in needle-like claws, with which to fight her battles.

Who acts: Mistress, curved fingers · What happens: form, end, fight, hold, battle · To what, where: talons, like claws, battles, ship

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 (Mistress, curved fingers), 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	_	2 lastly	cc
2	lastly	lastly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 scythes	punct
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 scythes	case
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 scythes	nummod
6	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 scythes	amod
7	scythes	scythe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lastly	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 hold	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ship	det
10	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hold	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 ship	case
12	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scythes	nmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 formed	nsubj
14	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hold	acl:relcl
15	talons	talon	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 formed	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 herself	case
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 formed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fierce	punct
19	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 scythes	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fingers	punct
21	curved	curved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fingers	amod
22	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fierce	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ending	punct
24	ending	end	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 fingers	acl
25	in	in	ADP	_	29 claws	case
26	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 like	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 needle	punct
28	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 claws	amod
29	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 ending	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 fight	punct
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 fight	obl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 fight	mark
34	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 claws	acl:relcl
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 battles	nmod:poss
36	battles	battle	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 fight	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lastly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	form	past	Mistress	talons		for Mistress	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent talon=Result for herself=Beneficiary
2	end	gerund	curved fingers not said here		like claws		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	fight	to-infinitive	curved fingers not said here	Mistress's battles		with like claws	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Co-Agent
5	hold			the ship			nom hold «act transitive»: poss=patient
6	battle		Mistress				nom battle «act transitive»: poss=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 Fate of the Sampo, sentence 19

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 19