The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 41
He smote me and made me his thrall; he made me his thrall and bade me come hither to his kingdom.
Who acts: Tuoni, thrall · What happens: smite, make, come · To what, where: me, thrall, kingdom
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 (Tuoni, thrall), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 smote | nsubj |
| 2 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 smote | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 made | cc |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 smote | conj |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 made | obj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 thrall | nmod:poss |
| 8 | thrall | thrall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 smote | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 made | obj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 thrall | nmod:poss |
| 14 | thrall | thrall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bade | cc |
| 16 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thrall | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 come | nsubj |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | parataxis |
| 19 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 kingdom | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 22 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 smote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smite | past | Tuoni | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Tuoni not said here | Tuoni's thrall | me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary thrall=Product | |||
| 3 | make | past | Tuoni | me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product | ||||
| 4 | come | present | Tuoni's thrall and bade | Tuoni's kingdom | me nsubj; hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kingdom=Initial_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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/14/41/