The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 91
The wary Wainamoinen was too proud to be outwitted by a simple maiden, and so he tried another subterfuge.
Who acts: wary Wainamoinen, simple maiden, Wainamoinen · What happens: be, outwit, try · To what, where: subterfuge
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wary Wainamoinen, simple maiden, Wainamoinen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wainamoinen | det |
| 2 | wary | wary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Wainamoinen | amod |
| 3 | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 proud | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 proud | cop |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 proud | advmod |
| 6 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 outwitted | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 outwitted | aux:pass |
| 9 | outwitted | outwit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 proud | xcomp |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 maiden | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 maiden | det |
| 12 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 maiden | amod |
| 13 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 outwitted | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tried | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tried | cc |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 tried | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 tried | nsubj |
| 18 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 proud | parataxis |
| 19 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 subterfuge | det |
| 20 | subterfuge | subterfuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tried | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 proud | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the wary Wainamoinen | proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | outwit | to-infinitive · passive | a simple maiden | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | try | past | Wainamoinen | another subterfuge | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subterfuge=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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