The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 47

All day he sat there, pondering, wondering how now by any makeshift he could escape from Pohyola and return to his native land.

Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: sit, ponder, wonder, escape, return · To what, where: Pohyola · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sat	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pondering	punct
7	pondering	ponder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sat	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wondering	punct
9	wondering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 pondering	conj
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 now	advmod
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 escape	advmod
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 makeshift	case
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 makeshift	det
14	makeshift	makeshift	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 escape	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 escape	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 escape	aux
17	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wondering	ccomp
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 Pohyola	case
19	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 escape	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 return	cc
21	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 escape	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 land	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 land	nmod:poss
24	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 land	amod
25	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 return	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Ilmarinen	there	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ponder	gerund	Ilmarinen not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wonder speech: ask	gerund	Ilmarinen not said here				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	escape	could	Ilmarinen	Pohyola	now	by any makeshift	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from pohyola=Initial_Location
5	return	infinitive	Ilmarinen not said here			to Ilmarinen's native land result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to land=Result

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 47

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 47