The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 61
At length, in his madness, he said to himself: “With gold and magic and smithing skill I will shape a body like hers—beautiful beyond compare—and then perhaps she will return from Tuonela and dwell therein as she did in her former body of flesh and blood.”
Who acts: Beauty, gold, friend · What happens: say, smith, shape, return, dwell, do · To what, where: Beauty, length, body, Tuonela, former body · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (Beauty, gold, friend), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 madness | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 madness | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 madness | nmod:poss |
| 6 | madness | madness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 length | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 himself | case |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 gold | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 gold | punct |
| 14 | With | with | ADP | _ | 15 gold | case |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shape | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 magic | cc |
| 17 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gold | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 skill | cc |
| 19 | smithing | smith | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 skill | amod |
| 20 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gold | conj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 shape | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 shape | aux |
| 23 | shape | shape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 body | det |
| 25 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shape | obj |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 hers | case |
| 27 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 shape | obl |
| 28 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 beautiful | punct |
| 29 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | conj |
| 30 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 31 compare | case |
| 31 | compare | compare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 beautiful | obl |
| 32 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 return | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 return | cc |
| 34 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 perhaps | advmod |
| 35 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 38 return | advmod |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 return | nsubj |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 return | aux |
| 38 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 40 Tuonela | case |
| 40 | Tuonela | Tuonela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 return | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 dwell | cc |
| 42 | dwell | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 return | conj |
| 43 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 42 dwell | advmod |
| 44 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 46 did | mark |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 did | nsubj |
| 46 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 dwell | advcl |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 body | case |
| 48 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 body | nmod:poss |
| 49 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 body | amod |
| 50 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 did | obl |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 flesh | case |
| 52 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 body | nmod |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 blood | cc |
| 54 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 body | conj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 return | punct |
| 56 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Beauty | Beauty | length and Beauty's madness | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | smith in a quote | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | shape in a quote | future | gold and magic and smithing skill | a body | like friend; I nsubj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material body=Product | |||
| 4 | return in a quote | future | friend | Tuonela | then | perhaps property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tuonela=Initial_Location | ||
| 5 | dwell in a quote | present | friend not said here | therein property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | do in a quote | past | friend | friend's former body of flesh and blood | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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