The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 69
The tireless Sampo heard not nor heeded.
Who acts: tireless Sampo · What happens: not hear, heed
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 (tireless Sampo), 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 Sampo | det |
| 2 | tireless | tireless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Sampo | amod |
| 3 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 heard | advmod |
| 6 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 heeded | cc |
| 7 | heeded | heed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 heard | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | past | the tireless Sampo | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | heed | participle | the tireless Sampo not said here | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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