The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 32
So into the fields they went, wondering whether any of Ilmarinen’s steeds had escaped the wolves and the hungry bears and the starving days of the drought.
Who acts: fields · What happens: go, wonder, escape, starve · To what, where: fields, steeds · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fields), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 fields | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fields | det |
| 4 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wondering | punct |
| 8 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 went | advcl |
| 9 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 16 escaped | mark |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 Ilmarinen | det |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Ilmarinen | case |
| 12 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 steeds | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Ilmarinen | case |
| 14 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 escaped | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 escaped | aux |
| 16 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 wondering | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wolves | det |
| 18 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 escaped | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bears | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bears | det |
| 21 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bears | amod |
| 22 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wolves | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 days | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 days | det |
| 25 | starving | starve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 days | amod |
| 26 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wolves | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 drought | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 drought | det |
| 29 | drought | drought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 days | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | fields = field | the fields | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | fields = field not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | escape | past · perfect · passive | any Ilmarinen's steeds | the wolves and the hungry bears and the starving days of the drought obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | starve | gerund | tree rules |
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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