The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 1
Far away in northern inlets Ilmarinen and his friend the Minstrel were catching salmon for the winter’s store.
What happens: catch · To what, where: salmon
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden. 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 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 away | advmod |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 catching | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 inlets | case |
| 4 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 inlets | amod |
| 5 | inlets | inlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 away | obl |
| 6 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 inlets | appos |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 friend | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 friend | nmod:poss |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Ilmarinen | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Minstrel | det |
| 11 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ilmarinen | appos |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 catching | aux |
| 13 | catching | catch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 catching | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 store | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 winter | det |
| 17 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 store | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 winter | case |
| 19 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 catching | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 catching | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · progressive | salmon | for the winter's store; away property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent salmon=Theme for store=Beneficiary |
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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