The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 32
The next moment the fierce gyrfalcon, the transformed Louhi, swooped down and perched herself upon the splintered mast.
Who acts: next moment · What happens: transform, swoop down, perch, splinter · To what, where: peril, splintered mast
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 (next moment), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 moment | amod |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 swooped | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gyrfalcon | det |
| 5 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gyrfalcon | amod |
| 6 | gyrfalcon | gyrfalcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moment | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Louhi | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Louhi | det |
| 9 | transformed | transform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Louhi | amod |
| 10 | Louhi | Louhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gyrfalcon | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 moment | punct |
| 12 | swooped | swoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 swooped | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 perched | cc |
| 15 | perched | perch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 swooped | conj |
| 16 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 perched | obj |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 mast | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mast | det |
| 19 | splintered | splinter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 mast | amod |
| 20 | mast | mast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 perched | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 swooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transform | participle | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | swoop down | past | the next moment | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | perch | past | the next moment not said here | peril | the splintered mast | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme upon mast=Destination | |||
| 4 | splinter | participle | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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