The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 37
The sword was shivered in pieces, it fell from the hero’s hand, and the pike still slept unharmed in the quiet water.
Who acts: sword, pike · What happens: shiver, fall, sleep · To what, where: sword, pieces, hand, quiet water
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 (sword, pike), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sword | det |
| 2 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shivered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shivered | aux:pass |
| 4 | shivered | shiver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 pieces | case |
| 6 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shivered | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fell | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fell | nsubj |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shivered | parataxis |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hero | det |
| 12 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 hero | case |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fell | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 slept | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 slept | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pike | det |
| 18 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 slept | nsubj |
| 19 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 slept | advmod |
| 20 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fell | conj |
| 21 | unharmed | unharmed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 slept | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 water | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 water | det |
| 24 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 water | amod |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 slept | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shivered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shiver | past · passive | the sword | pieces | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | sword | the hero's hand | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hand=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | sleep | past | the pike | the quiet water | still | unharmed property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location |
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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