The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 50
Failing in this, she screamed a second time, and from her wings the swordsmen leaped down.
Who acts: Woman · What happens: fail, scream, leap down · To what, where: this, wings, swordsmen
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 (Woman), 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 | Failing | fail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 screamed | advcl |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 this | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Failing | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Failing | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 screamed | nsubj |
| 6 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 screamed | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wings | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wings | cc |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 wings | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wings | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 screamed | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 swordsmen | det |
| 16 | swordsmen | swordsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wings | nmod |
| 17 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 swordsmen | acl |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 leaped | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | gerund | Woman not said here | this | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | scream speech: express | past | Woman | Woman's wings the swordsmen | time | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | leap down | participle | the swordsmen not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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