The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 37
Who shall describe the dismay, the grief, the heart-breaking of the hero, Ilmarinen?
What happens: describe · To what, where: dismay
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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 describe | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 describe | aux |
| 3 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dismay | det |
| 5 | dismay | dismay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 describe | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 grief | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 grief | det |
| 8 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dismay | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 breaking | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 breaking | det |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 breaking | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 heart | punct |
| 13 | breaking | breaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dismay | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hero | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hero | det |
| 16 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 breaking | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Ilmarinen | punct |
| 18 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dismay | conj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 describe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | shall | the dismay and the grief and the heart breaking of the hero and Ilmarinen | Who nsubj | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent dismay=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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