The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 98
When he at last, had reached the end, had recited all the proper runes and sayings, he stopped blowing the bellows, and with great caution stooped down and looked into the caldron.
Who acts: hero · What happens: reach, recite, stop, blow, stoop down, look · To what, where: end, proper runes, bellows
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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 reached | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 7 reached | mark |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 reached | nsubj:outer |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 last | punct |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reached | aux |
| 7 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 stopped | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 recited | punct |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 recited | aux |
| 12 | recited | recite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 reached | conj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 runes | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 runes | det |
| 15 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 runes | amod |
| 16 | runes | rune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 recited | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sayings | cc |
| 18 | sayings | saying | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 runes | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 reached | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 stopped | nsubj |
| 21 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | blowing | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 stopped | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bellows | det |
| 24 | bellows | bellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 blowing | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 stooped | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 stooped | cc |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 caution | case |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 caution | amod |
| 29 | caution | caution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stooped | obl |
| 30 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 stopped | conj |
| 31 | down | down | ADP | _ | 30 stooped | compound:prt |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 looked | cc |
| 33 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 stooped | conj |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 caldron | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 caldron | det |
| 36 | caldron | caldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 looked | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect | hero | the end | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent end=Theme | ||||
| 2 | recite | past · perfect | hero not said here | all proper runes and sayings | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rune=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stop | past | hero | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | blow | gerund | hero not said here | the bellows | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bellow=Patient | ||||
| 5 | stoop down | participle | hero not said here | with great caution | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | look | past | hero not said here | into the caldron | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into caldron=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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