The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 142
She waved her wand of slumber and chanted strange runes never heard on this side of the dark water.
Who acts: errand, strange runes · What happens: wave, chant, not hear · To what, where: wand, side
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 (errand, strange runes), 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 | 2 waved | nsubj |
| 2 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wand | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waved | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 slumber | case |
| 6 | slumber | slumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wand | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 chanted | cc |
| 8 | chanted | chant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waved | conj |
| 9 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 runes | amod |
| 10 | runes | rune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 heard | advmod |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 chanted | ccomp |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 side | det |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 water | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 water | det |
| 18 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 water | amod |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 side | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | past | errand | errand's wand of slumber | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Patient | ||||
| 2 | chant | past | errand not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not hear | past | strange runes | this side of the dark water | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: 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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