The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 39
They looked a second time, and from the meadow pathway they saw the hero coming, even Ilmarinen the Smith, the mightiest of all wizards.
Who acts: three, hero · What happens: look, see, come · To what, where: hero, meadow pathway, Ilmarinen
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Bridegroom’s Triumph. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three, hero), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 pathway | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pathway | det |
| 10 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pathway | compound |
| 11 | pathway | pathway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obl |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hero | det |
| 15 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 16 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 hero | acl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Ilmarinen | punct |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 Ilmarinen | advmod |
| 19 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 coming | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Smith | det |
| 21 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Ilmarinen | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 mightiest | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mightiest | det |
| 24 | mightiest | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 Ilmarinen | acl:relcl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 wizards | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 wizards | det |
| 27 | wizards | wizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 mightiest | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | three | time | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | past | three | the hero | the meadow pathway | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hero=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | come | gerund | the hero not said here | Ilmarinen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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