The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 54
Ilmarinen looked down into his sister’s dark eyes and answered, “If what you tell me is worth anything I will give you all that you have asked for—finger rings, earrings, brooch, comb, and five or six beautiful girdles.
Who acts: Ilmarinen, you · What happens: look down, answer, tell, be, give, ask · To what, where: five beautiful girdles, Ilmarinen, you, that · Speech: someone speaks here
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, you), 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 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 eyes | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sister | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 sister | case |
| 8 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eyes | amod |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 looked | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 answered | cc |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 what | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 what | punct |
| 14 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 what | mark |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 answered | parataxis |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | nsubj |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | iobj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 worth | cop |
| 20 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 anything | amod |
| 21 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 what | nsubj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 give | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 give | aux |
| 24 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 anything | acl:relcl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 give | iobj |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 asked | advmod |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 asked | obj |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 asked | nsubj |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 asked | aux |
| 30 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 give | advcl |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 rings | case |
| 32 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 rings | punct |
| 33 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 rings | compound |
| 34 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 asked | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 earrings | punct |
| 36 | earrings | earring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 rings | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 brooch | punct |
| 38 | brooch | brooch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 rings | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 comb | punct |
| 40 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 brooch | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 girdles | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 girdles | cc |
| 43 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 47 girdles | nummod |
| 44 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 45 six | cc |
| 45 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 five | conj |
| 46 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 girdles | amod |
| 47 | girdles | girdle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 looked | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look down | past | Ilmarinen | five beautiful girdles | into Ilmarinen's sister's dark eyes; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=Theme | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Ilmarinen not said here | what anything parataxis | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | you | Ilmarinen | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | worth property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | give in a quote | future | Ilmarinen | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present · perfect | you | that | for finger rings and earrings and brooch and comb | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient |
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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