The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 25
Therefore he resolved that he would get even with her; verily he would show her that he, too, was one of the mighty—a magician unexcelled in power, a master of things seen and unseen.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: resolve, get, show, be, unexcell, see · To what, where: Land, one, magician, power, things · 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 (maiden), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 resolved | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 resolved | nsubj |
| 3 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 get | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 get | aux |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 resolved | ccomp |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 her | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 get | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 show | punct |
| 12 | verily | verily | ADV | _ | 15 show | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 show | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 show | aux |
| 15 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 resolved | parataxis |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 show | iobj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 one | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 one | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 he | punct |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 one | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 too | punct |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 one | cop |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 show | ccomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 mighty | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 mighty | det |
| 26 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 one | nmod |
| 27 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 magician | punct |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 magician | det |
| 29 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 one | conj |
| 30 | unexcelled | unexcell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 magician | acl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 power | case |
| 32 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 unexcelled | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 master | punct |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 master | det |
| 35 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 magician | conj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 things | case |
| 37 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 master | nmod |
| 38 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 things | acl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 unseen | cc |
| 40 | unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 seen | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past | maiden | therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | would | maiden | with Land | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | show | would | maiden | Land | verily property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 4 | is a | past | maiden | one and a magician and a master of things | of the mighty; a magician and a master of things conj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | unexcell | participle | a magician and a master of things not said here | power | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | see | participle | things not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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