The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 95
He donned his coat of mail and drew on his greaves and his shoes of iron and his wonderful gloves which no weapons could pierce.
Who acts: hero, weapons · What happens: don, draw, pierce · To what, where: coat, greaves
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 (hero, weapons), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 donned | nsubj |
| 2 | donned | don | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 coat | nmod:poss |
| 4 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 donned | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 mail | case |
| 6 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coat | nmod | ||
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 drew | cc |
| 8 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 donned | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 greaves | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 greaves | nmod:poss |
| 11 | greaves | greave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 drew | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shoes | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 greaves | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 iron | case |
| 16 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shoes | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gloves | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 gloves | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 gloves | amod |
| 20 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 greaves | conj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 pierce | obj |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 weapons | det |
| 23 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 pierce | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 pierce | aux |
| 25 | pierce | pierce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 greaves | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 donned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | don | past | hero | hero's coat of mail | vn simple_dressing-41.3.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | draw | past | hero not said here | hero's greaves and hero's shoes of iron and hero's wonderful gloves | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on greave=Destination | ||||
| 3 | pierce | could | no weapons | hero's greaves and hero's shoes of iron and hero's wonderful gloves | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
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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