The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 60
Wainamoinen bowed and smiled and thus made known his errand: “It is for your daughter, the Maid of Beauty, that I have come.
Who acts: Wainamoinen, object, cunning Mistress · What happens: bow, smile, make, know, be, come · To what, where: known errand
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Old Man’s Wooing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wainamoinen, object, cunning Mistress), 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 | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 bowed | nsubj |
| 2 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 smiled | cc |
| 4 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bowed | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 made | cc |
| 6 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 7 made | advmod |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bowed | conj |
| 8 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 errand | amod |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 errand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 daughter | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 daughter | punct |
| 13 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 daughter | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 daughter | cop |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 daughter | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 errand | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Maid | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Maid | det |
| 20 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 daughter | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Beauty | case |
| 22 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Maid | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 come | punct |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 come | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 come | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 come | aux |
| 27 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 made | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | Wainamoinen | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | smile | past | Wainamoinen not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | past | Wainamoinen not said here | Wainamoinen's known errand and your daughter | thus property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset errand=Product | |||
| 4 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | object | for your daughter; your nmod:poss; the Maid of Beauty appos | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | come in a quote | present · perfect | the cunning Mistress = mistress | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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