The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 4
And when he remembered his object in building it he chuckled to himself, feeling that finally there was nothing to prevent the carrying out of the plans which he had cherished so long and so earnestly.
Who acts: Minstrel, feeling · What happens: remember, build, chuckle, feel, be, prevent · To what, where: object, Minstrel, nothing, plans
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Launching. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel, feeling), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 chuckled | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 remembered | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 remembered | nsubj |
| 4 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 chuckled | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 object | nmod:poss |
| 6 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remembered | obj |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 building | mark |
| 8 | building | build | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 remembered | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 building | obj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 chuckled | nsubj |
| 11 | chuckled | chuckle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 himself | case |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 chuckled | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 feeling | punct |
| 15 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 nothing | csubj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 was | mark |
| 17 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 19 was | advmod |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 was | expl |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 nothing | cop |
| 20 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 chuckled | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 prevent | mark |
| 22 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 nothing | acl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 carrying | det |
| 24 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 prevent | advcl |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 plans | case |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 plans | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 plans | det |
| 28 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 carrying | obl |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 cherished | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 cherished | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 cherished | aux |
| 32 | cherished | cherish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 plans | acl:relcl |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 long | advmod |
| 34 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 cherished | advmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 earnestly | cc |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 earnestly | advmod |
| 37 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 11 chuckled | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 chuckled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | Minstrel | Minstrel's object | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme | ||||
| 2 | build | gerund | Minstrel not said here | object | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | ||||
| 3 | chuckle | past | Minstrel | Minstrel | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | feel | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | is a | past | feeling | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | prevent | to-infinitive | Minstrel not said here | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 7 | carry out | gerund | Minstrel not said here | the plans | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | cherish | past · perfect · passive | the plans | Minstrel nsubj; long property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/18/4/