The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 144

And Wainamoinen neither spoke nor made resistance, but, wrapping his cloak about him, he laid himself down to sleep on the dread couch of King Tuoni.

Who acts: Wainamoinen · What happens: speak, make, wrap, lay down, sleep · To what, where: resistance, cloak, Wainamoinen, dread couch · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Wainamoinen), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 spoke	cc
2	Wainamoinen	Wainamoinen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	nsubj
3	neither	neither	ADV	_	4 spoke	advmod
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	6 made	cc
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoke	conj
7	resistance	resistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 laid	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 laid	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wrapping	punct
11	wrapping	wrap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 laid	advcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cloak	nmod:poss
13	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wrapping	obj
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wrapping	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wrapping	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 laid	nsubj
18	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoke	conj
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 laid	obj
20	down	down	ADP	_	18 laid	compound:prt
21	to	to	PART	_	22 sleep	mark
22	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 laid	advcl
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 couch	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 couch	det
25	dread	dread	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 couch	amod
26	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sleep	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 Tuoni	case
28	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Tuoni	compound
29	Tuoni	Tuoni	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 couch	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	Wainamoinen			neither property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	past	Wainamoinen not said here	resistance			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset resistance=Product
3	wrap	gerund	Wainamoinen not said here	Wainamoinen's cloak		about Wainamoinen	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme about he=Destination
4	lay down	past	Wainamoinen	Wainamoinen			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Result
5	sleep	to-infinitive	Wainamoinen not said here		the dread couch of King Tuoni		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 144

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 144