The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 23
With a screech that thrilled the sea to its very bottom and made the great iceberg tremble and totter, the mighty bird extended her wings and soared aloft.
Who acts: screech, mighty bird · What happens: thrill, make, extend, soar · To what, where: sea, great iceberg tremble, wings
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 (screech, mighty bird), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 screech | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 screech | det |
| 3 | screech | screech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 extended | obl |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 thrilled | nsubj |
| 5 | thrilled | thrill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 screech | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thrilled | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 bottom | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bottom | nmod:poss |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 bottom | advmod |
| 11 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thrilled | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 made | cc |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thrilled | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tremble | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tremble | amod |
| 16 | iceberg | iceberg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tremble | compound |
| 17 | tremble | tremble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 totter | cc |
| 19 | totter | totter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tremble | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 screech | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bird | det |
| 22 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bird | amod |
| 23 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 extended | nsubj |
| 24 | extended | extend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wings | nmod:poss |
| 26 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 extended | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 soared | cc |
| 28 | soared | soar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 extended | conj |
| 29 | aloft | aloft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 soared | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 extended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thrill | past | a screech | the sea | to sea's bottom | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sea=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | make | past | a screech not said here | the great iceberg tremble and totter | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tremble=Product | ||||
| 3 | extend | past | the mighty bird | Mistress's wings | with a screech | vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent wing=Theme | |||
| 4 | soar | past | the mighty bird not said here | aloft property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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