The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 8
And Ilmarinen sat in their midst and told them many tales of wonder, chiefly tales of his own rare skill and cunning.
Who acts: Ilmarinen, wonder, own rare skill · What happens: sit, tell · To what, where: midst, many tales, Herdsmen · 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 (Ilmarinen, wonder, own rare skill), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sat | cc |
| 2 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 midst | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 midst | nmod:poss |
| 6 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 told | cc |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 told | iobj |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tales | amod |
| 11 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 told | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 wonder | case |
| 13 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tales | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tales | punct |
| 15 | chiefly | chiefly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tales | amod |
| 16 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tales | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 skill | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 skill | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 skill | amod |
| 20 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 skill | amod |
| 21 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tales | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 cunning | cc |
| 23 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 skill | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Ilmarinen | Herdsmen's midst | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in midst=Location | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Ilmarinen not said here | many tales of wonder and chiefly tales of Ilmarinen's own rare skill and cunning | Herdsmen = herdsman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient tale=Topic | |||
| 3 | tell | wonder | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | tell | Ilmarinen's own rare skill and cunning | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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