The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 3
On the deck the long-armed Ahti danced nimbly and joyously, forgetful of his fishing, forgetful of his hunger.
Who acts: armed Ahti, Ahti · What happens: dance, fish, hunger · To what, where: forgetful, deck
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (armed Ahti, Ahti), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 deck | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 deck | det |
| 3 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 danced | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Ahti | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 armed | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
| 7 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Ahti | amod |
| 8 | Ahti | Ahti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 danced | nsubj |
| 9 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | nimbly | nimbly | ADV | _ | 9 danced | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 joyously | cc |
| 12 | joyously | joyously | ADV | _ | 10 nimbly | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forgetful | punct |
| 14 | forgetful | forgetful | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 danced | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 fishing | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 fishing | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forgetful | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 forgetful | punct |
| 19 | forgetful | forgetful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 danced | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 hunger | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hunger | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 forgetful | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | the armed Ahti | forgetful of Ahti's hunger | the deck | nimbly property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on deck=Location | ||
| 2 | fish | Ahti | nom fishing «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 3 | hunger | Ahti | nom hunger «state intransitive»: 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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