The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 3
Like a weird elf, or some uncanny dweller in the underworld, he stood in the lurid light of his forge and deftly wielded his heavy hammer.
Who acts: elf · What happens: stand, wield, light · To what, where: lurid light, heavy hammer, forge
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 (elf), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 elf | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 elf | det |
| 3 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 elf | amod |
| 4 | elf | elf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dweller | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 dweller | cc |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 dweller | det |
| 8 | uncanny | uncanny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dweller | amod |
| 9 | dweller | dweller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 elf | appos |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 underworld | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 underworld | det |
| 12 | underworld | underworld | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dweller | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 elf | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stood | nsubj |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 light | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 light | det |
| 18 | lurid | lurid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 light | amod |
| 19 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 forge | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 forge | nmod:poss |
| 22 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 light | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 wielded | cc |
| 24 | deftly | deftly | ADV | _ | 25 wielded | advmod |
| 25 | wielded | wield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stood | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hammer | nmod:poss |
| 27 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 hammer | amod |
| 28 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wielded | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | elf | the lurid light of elf's forge | like a weird elf | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in light=Location | |||
| 2 | wield | past | elf not said here | elf's heavy hammer | deftly property | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme | |||
| 3 | light | elf's forge | nom light «phenomenon 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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