The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 49
He dwells in the fields, he rests in the forests, he sings in the brooks, he abides in the deep sea.
Who acts: Wipunen · What happens: dwell, rest, sing, abide · To what, where: fields, forests, brooks, deep sea
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 (Wipunen), 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 | 2 dwells | nsubj |
| 2 | dwells | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 fields | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fields | det |
| 5 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dwells | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rests | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 rests | nsubj |
| 8 | rests | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 dwells | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 forests | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 forests | det |
| 11 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rests | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sings | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sings | nsubj |
| 14 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 dwells | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 brooks | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 brooks | det |
| 17 | brooks | brook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sings | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 abides | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 abides | nsubj |
| 20 | abides | abide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 dwells | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 sea | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sea | det |
| 23 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sea | amod |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 abides | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dwells | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | present | Wipunen | the fields | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Location | ||||
| 2 | rest | present | Wipunen | the forests | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in forest=Location | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | present | Wipunen | the brooks | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in brook=Location | ||||
| 4 | abide | present | Wipunen | the deep sea | tree rules |
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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