The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 47
They talked of the storm, of their household affairs, of their children, of Ilmarinen’s latest work in smithing; and all thoughts of the dark river and Tuoni’s kingdom were banished from their minds.
Who acts: neighbor, Ilmarinen · What happens: talk, banish, work, think, mind · To what, where: thoughts, minds, smithing, dark river
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 (neighbor, Ilmarinen), 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 talked | nsubj |
| 2 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 storm | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 storm | det |
| 5 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 talked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 affairs | punct |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 affairs | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 affairs | nmod:poss |
| 9 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 affairs | compound |
| 10 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 talked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 children | punct |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 children | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 children | nmod:poss |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 affairs | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 work | punct |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 work | case |
| 17 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 work | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Ilmarinen | case |
| 19 | latest | late | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 work | amod |
| 20 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 affairs | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 smithing | case |
| 22 | smithing | smithing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 work | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 banished | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 thoughts | cc |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 thoughts | det |
| 26 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 banished | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 river | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 river | det |
| 29 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 river | amod |
| 30 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 thoughts | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 kingdom | cc |
| 32 | Tuoni | Tuoni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 32 Tuoni | case |
| 34 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 river | conj |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 banished | aux:pass |
| 36 | banished | banish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 talked | parataxis |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 minds | case |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 minds | nmod:poss |
| 39 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 banished | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 talked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past | neighbor | of the storm; of neighbor's household affairs and neighbor's children and Ilmarinen's latest work in smithing | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | banish | past · passive | all thoughts of the dark river and Tuoni's kingdom | neighbor's minds | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from mind=Source | ||||
| 3 | work | Ilmarinen | smithing | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place | |||||
| 4 | think | the dark river and Tuoni's kingdom | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | mind | neighbor | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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