The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 21
“Far away, near at hand, in his own large realm of mystery, lies the giant Wipunen, the Wisdom Keeper, whom men sometimes call Nature.
Who acts: men · What happens: lie, call · To what, where: giant Wipunen · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (men), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 away | punct |
| 2 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 away | advmod |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hand | punct |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 away | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 realm | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 realm | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 realm | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 realm | amod |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 realm | amod |
| 13 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hand | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 mystery | case |
| 15 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 realm | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lies | punct |
| 17 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 away | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Wipunen | det |
| 19 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Wipunen | amod |
| 20 | Wipunen | Wipunen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 lies | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Keeper | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Keeper | det |
| 23 | Wisdom | Wisdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Keeper | compound |
| 24 | Keeper | Keeper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Wipunen | appos |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 call | punct |
| 26 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 call | obj |
| 27 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 call | nsubj |
| 28 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 call | advmod |
| 29 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 Wipunen | acl:relcl |
| 30 | Nature | Nature | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 call | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 away | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie in a quote | present | the giant Wipunen | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wipunen=Theme | |||||
| 2 | call in a quote | present | men | the giant Wipunen | Nature obj; sometimes property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme nature=Result |
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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