The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 73
“Truly, with such a plough I shall not fail to stir up a host of hissing serpents,” said Ilmarinen; “but how shall I protect myself from their fury while I am furrowing the field?”
Who acts: Ilmarinen, serpents · What happens: not fail, stir up, hiss, say, protect, furrow · To what, where: host, Ilmarinen, field · 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 (Ilmarinen, serpents), 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 | _ | 11 fail | punct |
| 2 | Truly | truly | ADV | _ | 11 fail | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Truly | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 plough | case |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 plough | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 plough | det |
| 7 | plough | plough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fail | obl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 fail | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 fail | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 fail | advmod |
| 11 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 said | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 stir | mark |
| 13 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fail | xcomp |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 stir | compound:prt |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 host | det |
| 16 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stir | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 serpents | case |
| 18 | hissing | hiss | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 serpents | amod |
| 19 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 host | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fail | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 fail | punct |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 said | nsubj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 protect | punct |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 protect | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 protect | cc |
| 27 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 protect | advmod |
| 28 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 protect | aux |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 protect | nsubj |
| 30 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 said | ccomp |
| 31 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 protect | obj |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 fury | case |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 fury | nmod:poss |
| 34 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 protect | obl |
| 35 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 38 furrowing | mark |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 furrowing | nsubj |
| 37 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 furrowing | aux |
| 38 | furrowing | furrow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 protect | advcl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 field | det |
| 40 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 furrowing | obj |
| 41 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 30 protect | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 protect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fail in a quote | shall | Ilmarinen | with such plough; truly property | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | stir up in a quote | to-infinitive | Ilmarinen not said here | a host of hissing serpents | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition host=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hiss in a quote | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | past | Ilmarinen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | protect in a quote | shall | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | from serpents's fury | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent myself=Beneficiary from fury=Theme | |||
| 6 | furrow in a quote | present · progressive | Ilmarinen | the field | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent field=Patient | ||||
| 7 | infuriate in a quote | serpents = serpent | nom fury «feeling 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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