The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 65
The Minstrel thanked him; and when he had donned his strange armor of iron and copper he started on his perilous journey.
Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: thank, don, start, journey · To what, where: Smith, strange armor, iron, perilous journey
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Minstrel | det |
| 2 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thanked | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 donned | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 donned | cc |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 donned | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 donned | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 donned | aux |
| 10 | donned | don | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 thanked | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 armor | nmod:poss |
| 12 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 armor | amod |
| 13 | armor | armor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 donned | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 iron | case |
| 15 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 armor | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 copper | cc |
| 17 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 iron | conj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 started | nsubj |
| 19 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 iron | acl:relcl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 journey | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 journey | nmod:poss |
| 22 | perilous | perilous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 journey | amod |
| 23 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 started | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the Minstrel | Smith | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | don | past · perfect | Minstrel | Minstrel's strange armor of iron and copper | vn simple_dressing-41.3.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent armor=Theme | ||||
| 3 | start | past | Minstrel | iron and copper not said here | Minstrel's perilous journey | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | journey | Minstrel | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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