The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 23
They lifted him gently; they carried him to Ilmarinen’s dwelling and laid him on his own bed.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: lift, carry, lay · To what, where: stranger, dwelling, own bed
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hero’s Return. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | obj |
| 4 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 2 lifted | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 carried | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 carried | nsubj |
| 7 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | parataxis |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 carried | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 dwelling | case |
| 10 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 dwelling | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Ilmarinen | case |
| 12 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carried | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 laid | cc |
| 14 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 carried | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 laid | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 bed | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 bed | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bed | amod |
| 19 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laid | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | eyes = eye | stranger | gently property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry | past | eyes = eye | stranger | Ilmarinen's dwelling | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to dwelling=Destination | |||
| 3 | lay | past | eyes = eye not said here | stranger | stranger's own bed | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on bed=Destination |
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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