The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 45
He it is who understands every secret and who keeps the key to all the mysteries of earth and sky.
Who acts: giant · What happens: be, keep · To what, where: key
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 (giant), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 understands | nsubj |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 He | conj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 understands | cop |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 understands | nsubj |
| 5 | understands | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 secret | det |
| 7 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 understands | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 keeps | cc |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 keeps | nsubj |
| 10 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 understands | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 key | det |
| 12 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keeps | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 mysteries | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 mysteries | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mysteries | det |
| 16 | mysteries | mystery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 keeps | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 earth | case |
| 18 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mysteries | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sky | cc |
| 20 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 earth | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 understands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | giant | who nsubj; every secret obj; understand property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | the key | to all mysteries of earth and sky; who nsubj | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme |
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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