The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 59
Wainamoinen drew his knife blade from its sheath and with skilful strokes divided the head into a hundred pieces—yes, into more than a hundred he cleaved it, that each of the crew might have abundance.
Who acts: Wainamoinen, crew · What happens: draw, divide, cleave, have · To what, where: knife blade, sheath, head, hundred pieces, hundred, abundance
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 (Wainamoinen, crew), 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 | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 blade | nmod:poss |
| 4 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blade | compound |
| 5 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 sheath | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sheath | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sheath | sheath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 divided | cc |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 strokes | case |
| 11 | skilful | skilful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 strokes | amod |
| 12 | strokes | stroke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 divided | obl |
| 13 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 head | det |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 divided | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 pieces | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 pieces | det |
| 18 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 pieces | nummod |
| 19 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 divided | obl |
| 20 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 cleaved | punct |
| 21 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 29 cleaved | discourse |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hundred | punct |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 hundred | case |
| 24 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 27 hundred | advmod |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 more | fixed |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 hundred | det |
| 27 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 cleaved | obl |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 cleaved | nsubj |
| 29 | cleaved | cleave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 cleaved | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 have | punct |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 have | mark |
| 33 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 crew | det |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 crew | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 crew | det |
| 36 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 have | nsubj |
| 37 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 have | aux |
| 38 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 cleaved | conj |
| 39 | abundance | abundance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 have | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen's knife blade | blade's sheath | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent blade=Theme from sheath=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | divide | past | Wainamoinen not said here | the head | a hundred pieces | with skilful strokes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent head=Patient with stroke=Instrument | ||
| 3 | cleave | past | Wainamoinen | head | into a hundred result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into hundred=Result | |||
| 4 | have | might | each crew | abundance | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abundance=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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