The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 52
She welcomed Ilmarinen not unkindly, and he placed before her the result of his long and arduous labors.
Who acts: Woman, Ilmarinen · What happens: welcome, place, result · To what, where: Ilmarinen, result, long labors
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 (Woman, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 welcomed | nsubj |
| 2 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 welcomed | obj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 unkindly | advmod |
| 5 | unkindly | unkindly | ADV | _ | 2 welcomed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 placed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 placed | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 placed | nsubj |
| 9 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 welcomed | conj |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 placed | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 result | det |
| 13 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 placed | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 labors | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 labors | nmod:poss |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 labors | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 arduous | cc |
| 18 | arduous | arduous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 long | conj |
| 19 | labors | labor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 result | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 welcomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | welcome | past | Woman | Ilmarinen | unkindly property | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ilmarinen=Theme | |||
| 2 | place | past | Ilmarinen | the result of Ilmarinen's long labors | before Woman | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent result=Theme before she=Destination | |||
| 3 | result | Ilmarinen's long labors | nom result «phenomenon 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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