The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 95
And under the tree stood Ilmarinen, helpless, imploring, angrily remonstrating, “O faithless bird!
What happens: stand, implore, remonstrate · To what, where: Ilmarinen, tree, faithless bird
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stood | cc |
| 2 | under | under | ADP | _ | 4 tree | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 helpless | punct |
| 8 | helpless | helpless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Ilmarinen | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 imploring | punct |
| 10 | imploring | implore | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 stood | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 remonstrating | punct |
| 12 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 13 remonstrating | advmod |
| 13 | remonstrating | remonstrate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 imploring | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bird | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 bird | punct |
| 16 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 18 bird | discourse |
| 17 | faithless | faithless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bird | amod |
| 18 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 remonstrating | obl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Ilmarinen | the tree | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ilmarinen=Theme under tree=Destination | ||||
| 2 | implore | gerund | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | remonstrate | gerund | faithless bird | angrily property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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