The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 78

Then he saw that in one of the giant’s hands was a casket wherein were contained the magic songs of all the ages, while in the other lay the golden key to the mystic house of knowledge.

Who acts: Minstrel, one, ages · What happens: see, be, contain, lie, sing · To what, where: casket, magic songs, golden key, other · Speech: someone speaks here

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, one, ages), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 saw	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 casket	mark
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 one	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 casket	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 hands	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 giant	det
9	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hands	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 giant	case
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 casket	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 casket	det
14	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	ccomp
15	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Int	17 contained	advmod
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 contained	aux:pass
17	contained	contain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 casket	acl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 songs	det
19	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 songs	amod
20	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 contained	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 ages	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 ages	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ages	det
24	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 songs	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 lay	punct
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 lay	mark
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 other	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 other	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 lay	obl
30	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 key	det
32	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 key	amod
33	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lay	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 house	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 house	det
36	mystic	mystic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 house	amod
37	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lay	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 knowledge	case
39	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 house	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Minstrel			then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	one of the giant's hands	a casket				tree rules
3	contain	past · passive		the magic songs of all ages			wherein property	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: song=Theme
4	lie	past	Minstrel not said here	the golden key	the other		to the mystic house of knowledge	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location key=Theme
5	sing		all ages					nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 78