The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 136

He repeated all the magic runes that he remembered, he recited spells to the winds and the waves and the gray-blue sky, he recalled all the words of power that he had learned from the sages of old.

Who acts: One · What happens: repeat, remember, recite, recall, learn, word · To what, where: magic runes, spells, winds, words, sages, power

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 (One), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 repeated	nsubj
2	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 runes	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 runes	det
5	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 runes	amod
6	runes	rune	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 repeated	obj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 remembered	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 remembered	nsubj
9	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 repeated	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 recited	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 recited	nsubj
12	recited	recite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 repeated	conj
13	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 recited	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 winds	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 winds	det
16	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 recited	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 waves	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 waves	det
19	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 winds	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sky	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sky	det
22	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 blue	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 gray	punct
24	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sky	amod
25	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 winds	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 recalled	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 recalled	nsubj
28	recalled	recall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 repeated	conj
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 words	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 words	det
31	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 recalled	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 power	case
33	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 words	nmod
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 learned	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 learned	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 learned	aux
37	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 recalled	advcl
38	from	from	ADP	_	40 sages	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 sages	det
40	sages	sage	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 learned	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 old	case
42	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 sages	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	repeat	past	One	all magic runes			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rune=Eventuality
2	remember	past	One				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	recite	past	One	spells	the winds and the waves and the blue sky		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent spell=Topic to wind=Recipient
4	recall	past	One	all words of power			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
5	learn	past · perfect	One			the sages of old	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from sage=Source
6	word			power			nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 136

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 136