The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 75
Then Ilmarinen took the head of the Great Pike from his shoulders and set it upon the floor by the side of the hearth.
Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: take, set · To what, where: head, shoulders, floor
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 (Ilmarinen), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 head | det |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Pike | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Pike | det |
| 8 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Pike | amod |
| 9 | Pike | Pike | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 head | nmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 shoulders | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 12 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 set | cc |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 set | obj |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 floor | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 floor | det |
| 18 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 set | obl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 side | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 side | det |
| 21 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 set | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 hearth | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hearth | det |
| 24 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 side | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Ilmarinen | the head of the Great Pike | Ilmarinen's shoulders | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent head=Theme from shoulder=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | set | infinitive | Ilmarinen not said here | head | the floor | by the side of the hearth | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon floor=Destination |
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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