The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 49
Having said this she gaped horribly with her beak of copper, and again reached far out with her sharpened talons, trying to grasp the coveted Sampo.
Who acts: this · What happens: have, say, gape, reach, sharpen, try · To what, where: coveted Sampo · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (this), 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 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 said | ccomp |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 gaped | nsubj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gaped | nsubj |
| 5 | gaped | gape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 6 | horribly | horribly | ADV | _ | 5 gaped | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 beak | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 beak | nmod:poss |
| 9 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gaped | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 copper | case |
| 11 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beak | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reached | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 reached | cc |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 reached | advmod |
| 15 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 16 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 out | advmod |
| 17 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 reached | advmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 talons | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 talons | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sharpened | sharpen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 talons | amod |
| 21 | talons | talon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 reached | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 trying | punct |
| 23 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 reached | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 grasp | mark |
| 25 | grasp | grasp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 trying | xcomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Sampo | det |
| 27 | coveted | covet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 Sampo | amod |
| 28 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 grasp | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | gape | past | this | with Woman's beak of copper; Woman nsubj; horribly property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | reach | past | again | with Woman's sharpened talons; out property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | sharpen | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | try | gerund | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 7 | grasp not said to happen | to-infinitive | the coveted Sampo | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sampo=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | covet | participle | vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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