The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 54
I know him, and I know of the footpaths which lead to his distant abode.
Who acts: I, footpaths · What happens: know, lead · To what, where: Wainamoinen
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 (I, footpaths), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 know | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 know | cc |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 footpaths | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 footpaths | det |
| 10 | footpaths | footpath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 know | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lead | nsubj |
| 12 | lead | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 footpaths | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 abode | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 abode | nmod:poss |
| 15 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 abode | amod |
| 16 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lead | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | Wainamoinen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | know | present | I | of the footpaths | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of footpath=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lead | present | the footpaths | to Wainamoinen's distant abode | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to abode=Patient |
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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