The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 40
So, still followed by his serving-men, he set out to find a fit place in which to build a smithy.
Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: follow, set out, find, build · To what, where: fit place, smithy
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 followed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 followed | punct |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 followed | advmod |
| 4 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 men | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 men | nmod:poss |
| 7 | serving | serving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 men | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 serving | punct |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 followed | obl:agent |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 set | nsubj |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 followed | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 set | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 find | mark |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 set | xcomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 17 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 place | amod |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 build | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 build | mark |
| 22 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 place | acl:relcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 smithy | det |
| 24 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 build | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | participle | still | Ilmarinen's serving men obl:agent | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set out | past | Ilmarinen | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | Ilmarinen not said here | a fit place | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | ||||
| 4 | build | to-infinitive | Ilmarinen not said here | a smithy | a fit place | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset smithy=Product |
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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