The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 96
He wandered over the silent meadows, he went out with the fishermen to catch salmon in the sea, he visited one place and another in the vast Frozen Land, vainly trying to forget his grief.
Who acts: Wainamoinen · What happens: wander, go out, catch, visit, try, forget · To what, where: silent meadows, salmon, sea, one place, grief
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wandered | nsubj |
| 2 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 meadows | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 meadows | det |
| 5 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 meadows | amod |
| 6 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wandered | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wandered | parataxis |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 fishermen | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fishermen | det |
| 13 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 went | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 catch | mark |
| 15 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | advcl |
| 16 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 catch | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 sea | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sea | det |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 catch | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 visited | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 visited | nsubj |
| 22 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wandered | parataxis |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 place | nummod |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 visited | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 another | cc |
| 26 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 visited | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 vast | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 vast | det |
| 29 | vast | vast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 another | nmod |
| 30 | Frozen | Frozen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 vast | appos |
| 31 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Frozen | flat |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 trying | punct |
| 33 | vainly | vainly | ADV | _ | 34 trying | advmod |
| 34 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 wandered | advcl |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 forget | mark |
| 36 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 trying | xcomp |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 grief | nmod:poss |
| 38 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 forget | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | Wainamoinen | the silent meadows | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over meadow=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | go out | past | Wainamoinen | with the fishermen; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with fisherman=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | catch | to-infinitive | Wainamoinen not said here | salmon | the sea | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=Theme | |||
| 4 | visit | past | Wainamoinen | one place | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | try | gerund | Wainamoinen not said here | vainly property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | forget not said to happen | to-infinitive | Wainamoinen not said here | Wainamoinen's grief | tree rules |
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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