The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 153
The bird flapped its wings, and Wainamoinen heard from far in the forest the echo of his words, “Tuoni!
Who acts: bird, Wainamoinen · What happens: flap, hear, word · To what, where: wings, echo, forest
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 (bird, Wainamoinen), 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 | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flapped | nsubj |
| 3 | flapped | flap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wings | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flapped | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 heard | cc |
| 8 | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flapped | conj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 far | case |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 heard | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 forest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forest | det |
| 14 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 echo | det |
| 16 | echo | echo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 words | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 words | nmod:poss |
| 19 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 echo | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Tuoni | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Tuoni | punct |
| 22 | Tuoni | Tuoni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 words | appos |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 flapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flap | past | the bird | Return's wings | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Wainamoinen | the echo of Wainamoinen's words | the forest | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent echo=Topic from far=Source | |||
| 3 | word | Wainamoinen | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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