The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 1
The four winds heard the magic call of Ilmarinen, and they hastened from the corners of the sky to do his bidding.
Who acts: four winds, winds, Ilmarinen · What happens: hear, hasten, do, call, bid · To what, where: magic call, corners, bidding, Ilmarinen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four winds, winds, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 winds | det |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 winds | nummod |
| 3 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 call | det |
| 6 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 call | amod |
| 7 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Ilmarinen | case |
| 9 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 call | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hastened | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hastened | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hastened | nsubj |
| 13 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 corners | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 corners | det |
| 16 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hastened | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sky | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sky | det |
| 19 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 corners | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 do | mark |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hastened | advcl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 23 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 do | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the four winds | the magic call of Ilmarinen | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer call=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hasten | past | winds = wind | the corners of the sky | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from corner=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | winds = wind not said here | Ilmarinen's bidding | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | call | Ilmarinen | nom call «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | bid | Ilmarinen | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=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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