The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 6
“I have performed my task and now I come to claim my own—the Maid of Beauty for whom I have waited and toiled.”
Who acts: Ilmarinen, my · What happens: perform, come, claim, wait, toil, task · To what, where: task, own
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Great Pike. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilmarinen, my), 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 | _ | 4 performed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 performed | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 performed | aux |
| 4 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 task | nmod:poss |
| 6 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 performed | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 come | cc |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 come | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 come | nsubj |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 performed | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 claim | mark |
| 12 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 come | advcl |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 own | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 claim | obj |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Maid | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Maid | det |
| 17 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 performed | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Beauty | case |
| 19 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Maid | nmod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 whom | case |
| 21 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 performed | obl |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 waited | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 waited | aux |
| 24 | waited | wait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 whom | acl:relcl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 toiled | cc |
| 26 | toiled | toil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 waited | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 performed | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 performed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perform in a quote | present · perfect | Ilmarinen | my task | the Maid of Beauty obl; whom obl | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent task=Theme for whom=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | Ilmarinen | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | claim speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | Ilmarinen not said here | my own | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent own=Topic | ||||
| 4 | wait in a quote | present · perfect | Ilmarinen | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | toil in a quote | participle | Ilmarinen not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | task in a quote | my | 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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