The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 64
It is the savage whoop of the slave Kullervo, bidding the beasts perform the dreadful business which he alone has planned.
Who acts: sound, beasts · What happens: be, bid, perform, plan · To what, where: savage whoop, dreadful business
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, beasts), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 whoop | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 whoop | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 whoop | det |
| 4 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 whoop | amod |
| 5 | whoop | whoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 slave | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 slave | det |
| 8 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 whoop | nmod |
| 9 | Kullervo | Kullervo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 slave | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bidding | punct |
| 11 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 whoop | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beasts | det |
| 13 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 perform | nsubj |
| 14 | perform | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 bidding | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 business | det |
| 16 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 business | amod |
| 17 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 perform | obj |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 planned | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 planned | nsubj |
| 20 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 22 planned | advmod |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 planned | aux |
| 22 | planned | plan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 business | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 whoop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | sound | the savage whoop | of the slave | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bid | gerund | sound not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | perform | present | the beasts | the dreadful business | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Theme | ||||
| 4 | plan | present · perfect · passive | the dreadful business | beast nsubj; alone property | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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