The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 86
Feebly, she soared upward, she turned her flaming eyes toward Pohyola, and with laboring wings made her way slowly across the sea.
Who acts: Jumala · What happens: soar, turn, labor, make · To what, where: flaming eyes, Pohyola, Jumala, sea
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 (Jumala), 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 | Feebly | feebly | ADV | _ | 4 soared | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Feebly | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 soared | nsubj |
| 4 | soared | soar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 4 soared | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 turned | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 turned | nsubj |
| 8 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 soared | conj |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | flaming | flaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eyes | compound |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 turned | obj |
| 12 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 13 Pohyola | case |
| 13 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 made | cc |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 wings | case |
| 17 | laboring | labor | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 wings | amod |
| 18 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 made | obl |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 soared | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 made | obj |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 19 made | advmod |
| 23 | across | across | ADP | _ | 25 sea | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sea | det |
| 25 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 soared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soar | past | Jumala | feebly, upward property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | Jumala | Jumala's flaming eyes | Pohyola | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent eye=Theme toward pohyola=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | labor | gerund | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | make | past | Jumala not said here | Jumala | the sea | with laboring wings; way obl:unmarked; slowly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product |
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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