The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 10
His eyes wandered onward to the ruined farmhouse, and past it to the smokeless smithy which had once been the joy and the pride of the hero, Ilmarinen.
Who acts: eyes, smokeless smithy · What happens: wander, ruin, have, be, pride · To what, where: ruined farmhouse, joy, hero
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, smokeless smithy), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wandered | nsubj |
| 3 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 3 wandered | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 farmhouse | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 farmhouse | det |
| 7 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 farmhouse | amod |
| 8 | farmhouse | farmhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wandered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 it | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 it | cc |
| 11 | past | past | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wandered | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 smithy | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 smithy | det |
| 15 | smokeless | smokeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 smithy | amod |
| 16 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wandered | obl |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 smithy | acl:relcl |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 joy | advmod |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 joy | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 joy | det |
| 22 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 pride | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pride | det |
| 25 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 joy | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 hero | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hero | det |
| 28 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pride | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Ilmarinen | punct |
| 30 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 joy | appos |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | cattle's eyes | the ruined farmhouse | past farmhouse; to the smokeless smithy; onward property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to farmhouse=Destination | |||
| 2 | ruin | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | have | past | the smokeless smithy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | participle | the joy and the pride of the hero | the pride of the hero conj; Ilmarinen appos; once property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pride | the hero | nom pride «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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