The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 41
Then he thanked the earth man heartily for his counsel, and with hopeful steps hastened to the smithy where Ilmarinen was toiling beside his flaming forge.
Who acts: Minstrel, Ilmarinen · What happens: thank, hasten, toil · To what, where: earth man, hopeful steps, smithy, flaming forge
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 (Minstrel, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 thanked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | compound |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obj |
| 7 | heartily | heartily | ADV | _ | 3 thanked | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 counsel | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 10 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 steps | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 steps | cc |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 steps | case |
| 14 | hopeful | hopeful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 steps | amod |
| 15 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thanked | parataxis |
| 16 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 steps | acl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 smithy | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 smithy | det |
| 19 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hastened | obl |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 toiling | advmod |
| 21 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 toiling | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 toiling | aux |
| 23 | toiling | toil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 smithy | acl |
| 24 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 27 forge | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 forge | nmod:poss |
| 26 | flaming | flaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 forge | compound |
| 27 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 toiling | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | Minstrel | the earth man | then | for Minstrel's counsel; hopeful steps parataxis; heartily property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent man=Theme for counsel=Attribute | ||
| 2 | hasten | participle | hopeful steps not said here | the smithy | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to smithy=Destination | ||||
| 3 | toil | past · progressive | Ilmarinen | Minstrel's flaming forge | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside forge=Trajectory |
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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