The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 2
At every sweep of the hundred oars she seemed to leap from the waves, to spring forward like a wild beast pouncing upon its prey.
Who acts: warship, wild beast · What happens: seem, leap, spring, pounce · To what, where: sweep, waves, prey
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 (warship, wild beast), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sweep | case |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 sweep | det |
| 3 | sweep | sweep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seemed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 oars | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 oars | det |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 oars | nummod |
| 7 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sweep | nmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seemed | nsubj |
| 9 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 leap | mark |
| 11 | leap | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 seemed | xcomp |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 waves | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 waves | det |
| 14 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 leap | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spring | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 spring | mark |
| 17 | spring | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 leap | conj |
| 18 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 17 spring | advmod |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 beast | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 beast | det |
| 21 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 beast | amod |
| 22 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spring | obl |
| 23 | pouncing | pounce | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 beast | acl |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 prey | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 prey | nmod:poss |
| 26 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pouncing | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | warship | every sweep of the hundred oars | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | leap | to-infinitive | warship not said here | the waves | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from wave=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | spring | to-infinitive | warship not said here | like a wild beast; forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pounce | gerund | a wild beast not said here | beast's prey | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon prey=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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