The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 109

Swiftly as a red deer when chased by wolves, swiftly as a sparrow on the wing, he glided over hills and marsh lands till at last he came again to Wainola and the smithy of Ilmarinen.

Who acts: Rest, marsh lands · What happens: chase, glide, till, come · To what, where: hills, last, Wainola

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rest, marsh lands), 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	Swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	7 chased	advmod
2	as	as	ADP	_	5 deer	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 deer	det
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 deer	amod
5	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swiftly	obl
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 chased	advmod
7	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 wolves	case
9	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chased	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sparrow	punct
11	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	14 sparrow	advmod
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 sparrow	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 sparrow	det
14	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chased	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 wing	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wing	det
17	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sparrow	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 glided	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 glided	nsubj
20	glided	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chased	parataxis
21	over	over	ADP	_	22 hills	case
22	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 glided	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 till	cc
24	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lands	compound
25	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 till	nsubj
26	till	till	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 glided	conj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 last	case
28	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 till	obl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 came	nsubj
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 till	ccomp
31	again	again	ADV	_	30 came	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 Wainola	case
33	Wainola	Wainola	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 came	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 smithy	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 smithy	det
36	smithy	smithy	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Wainola	conj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 Ilmarinen	case
38	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 smithy	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 chased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	participle				by wolves; as a sparrow on the wing; swiftly property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by wolf=Trajectory
2	glide	past	Rest	hills			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Trajectory
3	till	present	marsh lands	last			tree rules
4	come	past	Rest	Wainola and the smithy of Ilmarinen	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wainola=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 tree

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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 109