The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 72
Old, yes older than all other things, was this mighty Wipunen, the Wisdom Keeper, the guardian of the world’s secrets.
Who acts: this · What happens: be · To what, where: mighty Wipunen
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 (this), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 older | punct |
| 3 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 older | discourse |
| 4 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Old | conj |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 things | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 things | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 things | amod |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 older | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 things | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Wipunen | cop |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 Wipunen | nsubj |
| 12 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Wipunen | amod |
| 13 | Wipunen | Wipunen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 things | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Keeper | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Keeper | det |
| 16 | Wisdom | Wisdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Keeper | compound |
| 17 | Keeper | Keeper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Wipunen | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 guardian | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 guardian | det |
| 20 | guardian | guardian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Wipunen | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 secrets | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 secrets | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 world | case |
| 25 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 guardian | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this | mighty Wipunen | the Wisdom Keeper appos; the guardian of the world's secrets appos | 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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