The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 75
Suddenly, in the midst of the mêlée, the mighty bird of prey, even the transformed Mistress of Pohyola, leaped down from her lofty perch, and sweeping across the vessel’s bows sought to carry away the Sampo.
Who acts: sweeping · What happens: transform, leap down, sweep, seek, carry away · To what, where: lofty perch, bows, midst, Sampo
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 (sweeping), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 37 sought | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suddenly | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 midst | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 midst | det |
| 5 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 sought | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mêlée | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mêlée | det |
| 8 | mêlée | mêlée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 midst | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bird | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bird | det |
| 11 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bird | amod |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mêlée | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 prey | case |
| 14 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bird | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Mistress | punct |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 Mistress | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Mistress | det |
| 18 | transformed | transform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 Mistress | amod |
| 19 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mêlée | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Pohyola | case |
| 21 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Mistress | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 leaped | punct |
| 23 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 Mistress | conj |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 23 leaped | compound:prt |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 perch | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 perch | nmod:poss |
| 27 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 perch | amod |
| 28 | perch | perch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 leaped | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 sought | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 sought | cc |
| 31 | sweeping | sweep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 sought | csubj |
| 32 | across | across | ADP | _ | 36 bows | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 vessel | det |
| 34 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bows | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 34 vessel | case |
| 36 | bows | bows | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sweeping | obl |
| 37 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 carry | mark |
| 39 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 sought | xcomp |
| 40 | away | away | ADP | _ | 39 carry | compound:prt |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Sampo | det |
| 42 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 carry | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 sought | 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 | leap down | participle | sweeping not said here | Pohyola's lofty perch | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from perch=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | sweep | gerund | the vessel's bows | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across bows=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | seek | past | sweeping | the midst of the mêlée and the transformed Mistress of Pohyola | suddenly property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | carry away not said to happen | to-infinitive | sweeping not said here | the Sampo | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sampo=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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