The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 117
Showers of sparks flew from him, snapping, burning, threatening; and from among them sprang swords and spears and battle-axes, and daggers keen and pointed.
Who acts: Showers · What happens: fly, snap, burn, threaten, spring, dagger · To what, where: swords
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Showers), 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 | Showers | shower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 sparks | case |
| 3 | sparks | spark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Showers | nmod |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flew | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 snapping | punct |
| 8 | snapping | snap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 flew | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 burning | punct |
| 10 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 snapping | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 threatening | punct |
| 12 | threatening | threaten | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 snapping | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 sprang | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sprang | cc |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 16 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sprang | obl |
| 18 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 19 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sprang | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 spears | cc |
| 21 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 swords | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 axes | cc |
| 23 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 axes | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 battle | punct |
| 25 | axes | ax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 swords | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 daggers | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 daggers | cc |
| 28 | daggers | dagger | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sprang | conj |
| 29 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 daggers | xcomp |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 pointed | cc |
| 31 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 keen | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | Showers of sparks | from insect | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from he=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | snap | gerund | Showers of sparks not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | burn | gerund | Showers of sparks not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | threaten | gerund | Showers of sparks not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | spring | past | Showers of sparks not said here | swords and spears and battle axes | from Showers = shower | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location sword=Theme | |||
| 6 | dagger | present | Showers of sparks not said here | keen property | tree rules |
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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