The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 39
The name of that hero was Piru, and after he had performed his task he came from the field of horrors unbitten and unharmed.
Who acts: name, Piru · What happens: be, perform, come, name, task · To what, where: Piru, task, field, hero
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 (name, Piru), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Piru | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 hero | case |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 hero | det |
| 5 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 name | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Piru | cop |
| 7 | Piru | Piru | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 performed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 performed | cc |
| 10 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 13 performed | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 performed | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 performed | aux |
| 13 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 Piru | acl:relcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 task | nmod:poss |
| 15 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 performed | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 task | acl:relcl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 field | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 field | det |
| 20 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 horrors | case |
| 22 | horrors | horror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 field | nmod |
| 23 | unbitten | unbitten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 horrors | amod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 unharmed | cc |
| 25 | unharmed | unharmed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 unbitten | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Piru | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the name of that hero | Piru | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | perform | past · perfect | Piru | Piru's task | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Piru | Piru's task not said here | the field of horrors | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location task=Theme | |||
| 4 | name | that hero | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | task | Piru | nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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