The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 97
Ilmarinen asked no man any questions, although many persons were gathered on the shore, wondering whence came the strange vessel and whither it was going.
Who acts: Ilmarinen, strange vessel, vessel · What happens: ask, gather, wonder, come, go · To what, where: questions, man, many persons, shore · 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, strange vessel, vessel), 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 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | obj |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 questions | det |
| 6 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 asked | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gathered | punct |
| 8 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 12 gathered | mark |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 persons | amod |
| 10 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 gathered | aux:pass |
| 12 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 asked | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 shore | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shore | det |
| 15 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gathered | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wondering | punct |
| 17 | wondering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 18 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 came | advmod |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 wondering | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 vessel | det |
| 21 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 vessel | amod |
| 22 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | nsubj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 going | cc |
| 24 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 going | advmod |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 going | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 going | aux |
| 27 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 came | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Ilmarinen | any questions | no man | tree rules | |||
| 2 | gather | past · passive | many persons | the shore | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | come | past | the strange vessel | whence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | past · progressive | vessel | whither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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