The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 68
In the spells and songs which Wainamoinen uttered, the maker of nets had found his master; the power of magic had overcome him; naught could he do but obey the will of the mighty Minstrel.
Who acts: songs, naught · What happens: utter, find, overcome, do, obey · To what, where: maker, spells, power, mighty Minstrel
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 (songs, naught), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 spells | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spells | det |
| 3 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 found | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 songs | cc |
| 5 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spells | conj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 uttered | nsubj |
| 7 | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 uttered | nsubj |
| 8 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 songs | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 spells | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 maker | det |
| 11 | maker | maker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 nets | case |
| 13 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 maker | nmod |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 found | aux |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 master | nmod:poss |
| 17 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 overcome | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 power | det |
| 20 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 overcome | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 magic | case |
| 22 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 power | nmod |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 overcome | aux |
| 24 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 found | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 overcome | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 do | punct |
| 27 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 30 do | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 do | aux |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 do | nsubj |
| 30 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 found | parataxis |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 obey | cc |
| 32 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 do | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Minstrel | det |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 Minstrel | aux |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Minstrel | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Minstrel | det |
| 37 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Minstrel | amod |
| 38 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 obey | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utter speech: other | past | songs | Wainamoinen nsubj | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | past · perfect · passive | the maker of nets | the spells and songs | Wainamoinen's master obj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme master=Attribute | |||
| 3 | overcome | past · perfect · passive | the power of magic | Wainamoinen obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | could | naught | Wainamoinen nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | obey | infinitive | naught not said here | the mighty Minstrel | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minstrel=Theme |
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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