The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 92
Forthwith he flew to the thorny thickets and the miry bogs and the fever-breeding marshes, to gather what evils he might.
Who acts: Smith · What happens: fly, gather
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 (Smith), 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 | Forthwith | forthwith | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 thickets | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thickets | det |
| 6 | thorny | thorny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thickets | amod |
| 7 | thickets | thicket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flew | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bogs | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bogs | det |
| 10 | miry | miry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bogs | amod |
| 11 | bogs | bog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thickets | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 marshes | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 marshes | det |
| 14 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 breeding | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 fever | punct |
| 16 | breeding | breeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 marshes | compound |
| 17 | marshes | marsh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thickets | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gather | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 gather | mark |
| 20 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 flew | conj |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 gather | obj |
| 22 | evils | evil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 might | nsubj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 might | nsubj |
| 24 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 what | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | Smith | to the thorny thickets and the miry bogs and the breeding marshes result; forthwith property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to thicket=Result | ||||
| 2 | gather | to-infinitive | Smith not said here | what obj | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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