The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Home Coming, sentence 16
Then Ilmarinen, noble hero, lifted her into the sledge; he tucked the robes of fur about her; he wrapped her feet in soft, warm blankets.
Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: lift, tuck, wrap · To what, where: Beauty, sledge, robes, feet, soft warm blankets
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Home Coming. 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 | 7 lifted | advmod |
| 2 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lifted | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hero | punct |
| 4 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hero | amod |
| 5 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ilmarinen | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ilmarinen | punct |
| 7 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lifted | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 sledge | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sledge | det |
| 11 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lifted | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 tucked | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tucked | nsubj |
| 14 | tucked | tuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lifted | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 robes | det |
| 16 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tucked | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 fur | case |
| 18 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 robes | nmod |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fur | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 wrapped | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 wrapped | nsubj |
| 23 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lifted | conj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 feet | nmod:poss |
| 25 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 wrapped | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 blankets | case |
| 27 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 blankets | amod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 soft | punct |
| 29 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 blankets | amod |
| 30 | blankets | blanket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 wrapped | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | Ilmarinen | Beauty | the sledge | then | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into sledge=Destination | ||
| 2 | tuck | past | Ilmarinen | the robes of fur about Beauty | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent robe=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wrap | past | Ilmarinen | Beauty's feet | soft warm blankets | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in blanket=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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