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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 124

He buckled his girdle about him, and with long strides hastened toward the great house which he knew must be King Tuoni’s palace.

Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: buckle, hasten, know, be · To what, where: girdle, long strides, great house, palace

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel), 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

nsubjnmod:possobjcaseoblpunctcccaseamodoblaclcasedetamodoblobjnsubjacl:relclauxcopnmod:possflatcaseoblpunctrootHePRONbuckledVERBhisPRONgirdleNOUNaboutADPhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJwithADPlongADJstridesNOUNhastenedVERBtowardADPtheDETgreatADJhouseNOUNwhichPRONhePRONknewVERBmustAUXbeAUXKingPROPNTuoniPROPN’sPARTpalaceNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 bucklednsubj
2buckledbuckleVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs4 girdlenmod:poss
4girdlegirdleNOUNNumber=Sing2 buckledobj
5aboutaboutADP_6 himcase
6himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 buckledobl
7,,PUNCT_25 palacepunct
8andandCCONJ_25 palacecc
9withwithADP_11 stridescase
10longlongADJDegree=Pos11 stridesamod
11stridesstrideNOUNNumber=Plur25 palaceobl
12hastenedhastenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass11 stridesacl
13towardtowardADP_16 housecase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 housedet
15greatgreatADJDegree=Pos16 houseamod
16househouseNOUNNumber=Sing12 hastenedobl
17whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel19 knewobj
18hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 knewnsubj
19knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 houseacl:relcl
20mustmustAUXVerbForm=Fin25 palaceaux
21bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf25 palacecop
22KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing25 palacenmod:poss
23TuoniTuoniPROPNNumber=Sing22 Kingflat
24’s'sPART_22 Kingcase
25palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing2 buckledobl
26..PUNCT_2 buckledpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bucklepastMinstrelMinstrel's girdleabout Tuonelavn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girdle=Patient
2hastenparticiplelong strides not said herethe great housevn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward house=Trajectory
3knowpastMinstrelthe great housevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
4is amustKing's palacewith long strides; King nmod:posstree 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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