The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 124
For two weary days he travelled through trackless ways and along forgotten paths where bears used to amble and wolves pursued their prey.
Who acts: Ilmarinen, bears, wolves · What happens: travel, forget, use, amble, pursue · To what, where: trackless ways, prey
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilmarinen, bears, wolves), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 3 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 travelled | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 travelled | nsubj |
| 6 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 ways | case |
| 8 | trackless | trackless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ways | amod |
| 9 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 travelled | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 paths | cc |
| 11 | along | along | ADV | _ | 12 forgotten | advmod |
| 12 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 paths | amod |
| 13 | paths | path | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ways | conj |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 used | advmod |
| 15 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 used | nsubj |
| 16 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 paths | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 amble | mark |
| 18 | amble | amble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 used | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pursued | cc |
| 20 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 pursued | nsubj |
| 21 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 amble | conj |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 prey | nmod:poss |
| 23 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pursued | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | Ilmarinen | trackless ways and forgotten paths | day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through way=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | forget | participle | along property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | use | past | bears | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | amble | to-infinitive | bears not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | pursue | past | wolves | wolves's prey | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=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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