The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 131
Wainamoinen sat silent for a long time, shaking his head and thinking.
Who acts: Wainamoinen · What happens: sit, shake · To what, where: head
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sat | xcomp |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shaking | punct |
| 9 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 sat | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shaking | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thinking | cc |
| 13 | thinking | thinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 head | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Wainamoinen | time | silent property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | shake | gerund | Wainamoinen not said here | Wainamoinen's head and thinking | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
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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