The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 97
For hours the hero labored without cessation; for hours he muttered spells of enchantment, suffering nothing to break in upon his thoughts or distract from the mystic power of his words.
Who acts: hero · What happens: labor, mutter, suffer, break in, distract, spell · To what, where: spells, thoughts, mystic power, enchantment
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 (hero), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 hours | case |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 labored | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hero | det |
| 4 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 labored | nsubj |
| 5 | labored | labor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | without | without | ADP | _ | 7 cessation | case |
| 7 | cessation | cessation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 labored | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 muttered | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 hours | case |
| 10 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 muttered | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 muttered | nsubj |
| 12 | muttered | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 labored | parataxis |
| 13 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 muttered | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 enchantment | case |
| 15 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spells | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 nothing | punct |
| 17 | suffering | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 nothing | amod |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 muttered | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 break | mark |
| 20 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 nothing | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 break | obl |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 thoughts | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 24 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 break | obl |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 distract | cc |
| 26 | distract | distract | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 break | conj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 power | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 power | det |
| 29 | mystic | mystic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 power | amod |
| 30 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 distract | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 words | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 words | nmod:poss |
| 33 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 power | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 labored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | labor | participle | the hero | hour | without cessation | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | mutter speech: assert | past | hero | spells of enchantment | hour | nothing conj | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Topic | ||
| 3 | suffer | gerund | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | break in | to-infinitive | hero not said here | hero's thoughts | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon thought=Location | ||||
| 5 | distract | infinitive | hero not said here | the mystic power of hero's words | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | spell | enchantment | nom spell «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | think | hero | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | word | hero | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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