The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 28

Thus, all through the wintry weather, Ilmarinen dispensed wisdom to the inquiring men who desired it, and there was no question which he could not answer, no want which he could not satisfy.

Who acts: Ilmarinen, inquiring men · What happens: dispense, inquire, desire, be, not answer, not satisfy · To what, where: wisdom, wintry weather, question, want

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 (Ilmarinen, inquiring men), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	10 dispensed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thus	punct
3	all	all	ADV	_	10 dispensed	advmod
4	through	through	ADP	_	7 weather	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 weather	det
6	wintry	wintry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 weather	amod
7	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dispensed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 weather	punct
9	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 dispensed	nsubj
10	dispensed	dispense	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 question	csubj
11	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dispensed	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 men	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 men	det
14	inquiring	inquire	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 men	amod
15	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dispensed	obl
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 desired	nsubj
17	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 men	acl:relcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 desired	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 was	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 was	cc
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 was	expl
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 question	cop
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 question	det
24	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 answer	obj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 answer	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 answer	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 answer	advmod
29	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 question	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 want	punct
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 want	det
32	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 question	appos
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 satisfy	obj
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 satisfy	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 satisfy	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 satisfy	advmod
37	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 want	acl:relcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 question	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dispense	past	Ilmarinen	wisdom	the wintry weather	to the inquiring men; all, thus property	tree rules
2	inquire speech: other	gerund					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	desire	past	the inquiring men	wisdom			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
4	is a	past		no question		no want appos	tree rules
5	not answer speech: assert	could	Ilmarinen	no question			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality
6	not satisfy	could	Ilmarinen	no want			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer

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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The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 28