The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 76
With her maimed and useless feet she struck it, and with her one crooked, indescribable finger she grasped it.
Who acts: Pohyola · What happens: maim, strike, grasp · To what, where: 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 (Pohyola), 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 | _ | 6 feet | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 feet | nmod:poss |
| 3 | maimed | maim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 feet | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 useless | cc |
| 5 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 maimed | conj |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 struck | obl |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 struck | nsubj |
| 8 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 struck | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 grasped | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 grasped | cc |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 finger | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 finger | nmod:poss |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 finger | nummod |
| 15 | crooked | crooked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 finger | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 crooked | punct |
| 17 | indescribable | indescribable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 finger | amod |
| 18 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grasped | obl |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 grasped | nsubj |
| 20 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 struck | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 grasped | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | maim | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | strike | past | Pohyola | Sampo | with Pohyola's maimed feet | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with foot=Instrument | |||
| 3 | grasp | past | Pohyola | Sampo | with Pohyola's one crooked indescribable finger | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with finger=Instrument |
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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