The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 24
He remembered how the maiden had laughed at him and twitted him as she sat on the rainbow plying her magic shuttles and weaving the web of the unmeasured sky; and as he thought of her words and her taunting manner, his feeling of reverence for her was tempered with a desire for some sort of revenge.
Who acts: Ilmarinen, Land, rainbow · What happens: remember, laugh, twit, sit, ply, shuttle · To what, where: maiden, Ilmarinen, rainbow, magic, web, Land · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ilmarinen, Land, rainbow), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 remembered | nsubj |
| 2 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 laughed | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 maiden | det |
| 5 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laughed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 laughed | aux |
| 7 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 remembered | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 laughed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 twitted | cc |
| 11 | twitted | twit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 remembered | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 twitted | obj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 sat | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sat | nsubj |
| 15 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 shuttles | advcl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 rainbow | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rainbow | det |
| 18 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sat | obl |
| 19 | plying | ply | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 rainbow | acl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 magic | nmod:poss |
| 21 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 plying | obj |
| 22 | shuttles | shuttle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 twitted | parataxis |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 weaving | cc |
| 24 | weaving | weave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 shuttles | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 web | det |
| 26 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 weaving | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 sky | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sky | det |
| 29 | unmeasured | unmeasured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 sky | amod |
| 30 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 web | nmod |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 thought | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 thought | cc |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 thought | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 thought | nsubj |
| 35 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 remembered | parataxis |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 words | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 words | nmod:poss |
| 38 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 thought | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 manner | cc |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 manner | nmod:poss |
| 41 | taunting | taunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 42 manner | amod |
| 42 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 words | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 feeling | punct |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 feeling | nmod:poss |
| 45 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 thought | ccomp |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 reverence | case |
| 47 | reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 feeling | nmod |
| 48 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 51 tempered | mark |
| 49 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 tempered | nsubj:pass |
| 50 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 tempered | aux:pass |
| 51 | tempered | temper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 thought | ccomp |
| 52 | with | with | ADP | _ | 54 desire | case |
| 53 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 54 desire | det |
| 54 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 tempered | obl |
| 55 | for | for | ADP | _ | 57 sort | case |
| 56 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 57 sort | det |
| 57 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 desire | nmod |
| 58 | of | of | ADP | _ | 59 revenge | case |
| 59 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 sort | nmod |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | Ilmarinen | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | laugh | past · perfect · passive | the maiden | at Ilmarinen | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | twit | past | Ilmarinen not said here | Ilmarinen | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sit | past | Land | the rainbow | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rainbow=Location | ||||
| 5 | ply | gerund | the rainbow not said here | Land's magic | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent magic=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | shuttle | present | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | weave | gerund | the web of the unmeasured sky | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Product | |||||
| 8 | think speech: other | past | Ilmarinen | of Land's words and Land's taunting manner; Ilmarinen's feeling of reverence ccomp | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 9 | taunt | gerund | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 10 | temper | past · passive | Land | with a desire for some sort of revenge | tree rules | ||||
| 11 | word | Land | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 12 | sort | revenge | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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