The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 55
With a golden axe upon his shoulder Sampsa sauntered, singing, through the forest.
Who acts: Sampsa · What happens: saunter, sing · To what, where: 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 (Sampsa), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 axe | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 axe | det |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 axe | amod |
| 4 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sauntered | obl |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 shoulder | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 7 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 axe | nmod |
| 8 | Sampsa | Sampsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sauntered | nsubj |
| 9 | sauntered | saunter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 singing | punct |
| 11 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 sauntered | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 forest | punct |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 singing | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sauntered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | saunter | past | Sampsa | with a golden axe upon dwarf's shoulder | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | Sampsa not said here | the forest | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Location |
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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