The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 58

And Jumala heard where there was no sound; for he led the hero straight to the river’s bank, he showed him how to avoid every snare, and how to escape every peril.

Who acts: Jumala, sound · What happens: hear, be, lead, show, avoid, escape · To what, where: hero, bank, snare, peril · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hag of the Rock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jumala, sound), 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	_	3 heard	cc
2	Jumala	Jumala	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 was	advmod
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	ccomp
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 sound	det
8	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 led	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 led	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 led	nsubj
12	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hero	det
14	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 led	obj
15	straight	straight	ADV	_	20 bank	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	20 bank	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 river	det
18	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bank	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 river	case
20	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 led	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 showed	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 showed	nsubj
23	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 led	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 showed	iobj
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 avoid	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 avoid	mark
27	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 showed	advcl
28	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	29 snare	det
29	snare	snare	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 avoid	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 escape	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 escape	cc
32	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	34 escape	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 escape	mark
34	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 heard	conj
35	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	36 peril	det
36	peril	peril	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 escape	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	hear	past	Jumala				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	be	past	no sound			there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lead	past	Jumala	the hero		the river's bank	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hero=Theme to bank=Destination
4	show	past	Jumala		hero		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	avoid	to-infinitive	Jumala not said here	every snare			vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent snare=Location
6	escape	to-infinitive	Jumala not said here	every peril			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme peril=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.

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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 58