The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 59
“The task is a hard one, it is full of peril,” said Ilmarinen, as his courage came slowly back to him.
Who acts: task, Ilmarinen, courage · What happens: be, say, come back · To what, where: hard one, Ilmarinen · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (task, Ilmarinen, courage), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 task | det |
| 3 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 one | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 full | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 full | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 full | cop |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 peril | case |
| 13 | peril | peril | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 full | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 came | mark |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 courage | nmod:poss |
| 21 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | conj |
| 23 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 22 came | advmod |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 came | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 came | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the task | a hard one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | task | of peril; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Ilmarinen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come back | past | Ilmarinen's courage | Ilmarinen | slowly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location |
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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