The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 68
On the fourth day, he ran for leagues upon the sharpened points of needles; but his shoes of iron protected him.
Who acts: planter, shoes · What happens: run, sharpen, protect, point · To what, where: planter, needles
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 (planter, shoes), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ran | nsubj |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 leagues | case |
| 9 | leagues | league | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ran | obl |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 points | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 points | det |
| 12 | sharpened | sharpen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 points | amod |
| 13 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 leagues | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 needles | case |
| 15 | needles | needle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 points | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 protected | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 shoes | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 protected | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 iron | case |
| 21 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shoes | nmod |
| 22 | protected | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ran | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 protected | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | planter | day | for leagues upon the sharpened points of needles | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for league=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | sharpen | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | protect | past | planter's shoes of iron | planter | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | point | needles | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=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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