The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 5

Herdsmen from the frozen meadows, savage fellows from the forest, fishermen from the icy inlets—these also came to hear the words of the wizard Smith and be taught by him.

Who acts: Herdsmen, Ilmarinen · What happens: freeze, come, hear, teach, word · To what, where: these, words, wizard Smith

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 (Herdsmen, 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	Herdsmen	herdsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 came	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	5 meadows	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 meadows	det
4	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 meadows	amod
5	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Herdsmen	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fellows	punct
7	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fellows	amod
8	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 meadows	appos
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 forest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 forest	det
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fellows	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fishermen	punct
13	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 forest	conj
14	from	from	ADP	_	17 inlets	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 inlets	det
16	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 inlets	amod
17	inlets	inlet	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fishermen	nmod
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	19 these	punct
19	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 came	obl
20	also	also	ADV	_	21 came	advmod
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	to	to	PART	_	23 hear	mark
23	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 came	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 words	det
25	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hear	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 Smith	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Smith	det
28	wizard	wizard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Smith	amod
29	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 words	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 taught	cc
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 taught	aux:pass
32	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 hear	conj
33	by	by	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 taught	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	freeze	participle			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	come	past	Herdsmen from the frozen meadows	these	tree rules
3	hear	to-infinitive	Herdsmen from the frozen meadows not said here	the words of the wizard Smith	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
4	teach speech: other	infinitive · passive	Ilmarinen		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	word			the wizard Smith	nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 5

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 5