The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 128
Ilmarinen put her off gently, kissing her on the cheek and thanking her for her words of praise.
Who acts: Ilmarinen, sister · What happens: put off, kiss, thank, word · To what, where: sister, cheek, praise
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilmarinen, sister), 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 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 put | obj |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 put | compound:prt |
| 5 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 2 put | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 kissing | punct |
| 7 | kissing | kiss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 put | advcl |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 kissing | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 cheek | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cheek | det |
| 11 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kissing | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thanking | cc |
| 13 | thanking | thank | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 kissing | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thanking | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 words | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 words | nmod:poss |
| 17 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 thanking | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 praise | case |
| 19 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 words | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put off | past | Ilmarinen | sister | gently property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal | |||
| 2 | kiss | gerund | Ilmarinen not said here | sister | the cheek | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | gerund | Ilmarinen not said here | sister | for sister's words of praise | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme for word=Attribute | |||
| 4 | word | sister | praise | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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