The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 94
All day, from dawn till evening twilight, and all night, from darkness till morning sunlight, the mighty Wipunen sang without ceasing.
Who acts: mighty Wipunen · What happens: sing, cease
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 (mighty Wipunen), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sang | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dawn | punct |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 dawn | case |
| 5 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | appos |
| 6 | till | till | ADP | _ | 8 twilight | case |
| 7 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 twilight | compound |
| 8 | twilight | twilight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dawn | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 night | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 night | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 night | det |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 darkness | punct |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 darkness | case |
| 15 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | conj |
| 16 | till | till | ADP | _ | 18 sunlight | case |
| 17 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sunlight | compound |
| 18 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 darkness | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Wipunen | det |
| 21 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Wipunen | amod |
| 22 | Wipunen | Wipunen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 sang | nsubj |
| 23 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 25 ceasing | mark |
| 25 | ceasing | cease | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 sang | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | the mighty Wipunen | day | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | cease | gerund | the mighty Wipunen not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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