The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 49
Then, leaving the smithy and all his tools in the silence of the forest, he followed the laborers to Pohyola, proud of his great performance, but pale and wan and wellnigh exhausted from long labor and ceaseless anxiety.
Who acts: Mistress · What happens: leave, follow, exhaust, silence, perform · To what, where: smithy, laborers, Pohyola, long labor, forest
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 (Mistress), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 leaving | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 followed | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 smithy | det |
| 5 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaving | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tools | cc |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 tools | det:predet |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 tools | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 smithy | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 silence | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 silence | det |
| 12 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tools | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 silence | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 leaving | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 followed | nsubj |
| 18 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 laborers | det |
| 20 | laborers | laborer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 followed | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Pohyola | case |
| 22 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 laborers | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 proud | punct |
| 24 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 laborers | acl:relcl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 performance | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 performance | nmod:poss |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 performance | amod |
| 28 | performance | performance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 proud | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 exhausted | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 exhausted | cc |
| 31 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 exhausted | amod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 wan | cc |
| 33 | wan | wan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 pale | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 wellnigh | cc |
| 35 | wellnigh | wellnigh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 pale | conj |
| 36 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 followed | parataxis |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 labor | case |
| 38 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 labor | amod |
| 39 | labor | labor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 exhausted | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 anxiety | cc |
| 41 | ceaseless | ceaseless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 anxiety | amod |
| 42 | anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 labor | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | gerund | Mistress not said here | the smithy and Mistress's tools in the silence of the forest | then | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smithy=Theme | |||
| 2 | follow | past | Mistress | the laborers | Pohyola | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent laborer=Theme to pohyola=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | exhaust | participle | long labor and ceaseless anxiety | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | silence | the forest | nom silence «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | perform | Mistress | nom performance «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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