The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 104
Forthwith, the earth man smote the oak with his magic axe, and the tree uttered a cry of joy as it fell prone upon the earth.
Who acts: Forthwith earth man, tree, cry, joy · What happens: smite, utter, fall, cry · To what, where: oak, cry, prone
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Forthwith earth man, tree, cry, joy), 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 | Forthwith | forthwith | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Forthwith | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | compound |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 smote | nsubj |
| 6 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 oak | det |
| 8 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 smote | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 axe | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 axe | nmod:poss |
| 11 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 axe | amod |
| 12 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 smote | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 uttered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 uttered | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 uttered | nsubj |
| 17 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 smote | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cry | det |
| 19 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 uttered | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 joy | case |
| 21 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cry | nmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 fell | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fell | nsubj |
| 24 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 uttered | advcl |
| 25 | prone | prone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fell | obj |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 earth | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 earth | det |
| 28 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fell | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 smote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smite | past | the Forthwith earth man | the oak | with oak's magic axe | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent oak=Patient with axe=Instrument | |||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past | the tree | a cry of joy | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | cry | prone | upon the earth | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient prone=Result | |||
| 4 | cry | joy | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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