The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 142
At length he rose and called to his serving-men; he dismissed them, every one, and summoned the winds to come and be his helpers.
Who acts: head · What happens: rise, call, dismiss, summon, come, be · To what, where: length, serving men, men, winds, helpers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 called | cc |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 men | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 men | nmod:poss |
| 9 | serving | serving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 men | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 serving | punct |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 called | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 dismissed | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dismissed | nsubj |
| 14 | dismissed | dismiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dismissed | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 one | punct |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dismissed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 summoned | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 summoned | cc |
| 21 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 dismissed | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 winds | det |
| 23 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 summoned | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 come | mark |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 summoned | xcomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 helpers | cc |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 helpers | cop |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 helpers | nmod:poss |
| 29 | helpers | helper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 come | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | head | length | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at length=Location | ||||
| 2 | call | past | head not said here | head's serving men | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | dismiss | past | head | men = man | every one obl | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 4 | summon | past | head not said here | the winds | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent wind=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | come | to-infinitive | head not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is a | infinitive | head not said here | head's helpers | head nmod:poss | 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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