The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 22
She was his deity, his Jumala, as far superior to him as he, the prince of smiths and wizards, was superior to the beasts of the fields and woods.
Who acts: Land, deity · What happens: be · To what, where: deity
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 (Land, deity), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 deity | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 deity | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 deity | nmod:poss |
| 4 | deity | deity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 superior | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Jumala | punct |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Jumala | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Jumala | Jumala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 deity | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 superior | punct |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 superior | advmod |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 superior | advmod |
| 11 | superior | superior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 deity | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 superior | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 he | case |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 superior | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 prince | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 prince | det |
| 18 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 deity | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 smiths | case |
| 20 | smiths | smith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 prince | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wizards | cc |
| 22 | wizards | wizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 smiths | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 deity | punct |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 superior | cop |
| 25 | superior | superior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 beasts | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 beasts | det |
| 28 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 superior | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 fields | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 fields | det |
| 31 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 beasts | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 woods | cc |
| 33 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 fields | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 superior | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Land | Ilmarinen's deity and the prince of smiths and wizards | Ilmarinen nmod:poss; Ilmarinen's Jumala appos; the prince of smiths and wizards conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | Ilmarinen's deity and the prince of smiths and wizards | to the beasts of the fields and woods; superior property | tree rules |
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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