The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 88
It gathered what honey it could from the blossom, and then flew swiftly away.
Who acts: mixture · What happens: gather, fly · To what, where: honey, blossom
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 (mixture), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gathered | nsubj |
| 2 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 honey | det |
| 4 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gathered | obj |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 could | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 honey | acl:relcl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 blossom | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 blossom | det |
| 9 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gathered | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 flew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 flew | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 flew | advmod |
| 13 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gathered | conj |
| 14 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 15 away | advmod |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 flew | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | mixture | what honey | the blossom | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent honey=Theme from blossom=Source | |||
| 2 | fly | past | mixture not said here | then | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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