The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 72
Soon he found five horsehairs which the wild steeds of Pohyola had lost while pasturing there—five horsehairs, long and strong and resonant.
Who acts: Wainamoinen · What happens: find, lose, pasture · To what, where: five horsehairs, wild steeds
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), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 found | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 horsehairs | nummod |
| 5 | horsehairs | horsehair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 found | obj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lost | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 steeds | det |
| 8 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 steeds | amod |
| 9 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Pohyola | case |
| 11 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 steeds | nmod |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lost | aux |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 horsehairs | acl:relcl |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 pasturing | mark |
| 15 | pasturing | pasture | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 lost | advcl |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 pasturing | advmod |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 horsehairs | punct |
| 18 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 horsehairs | nummod |
| 19 | horsehairs | horsehair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pasturing | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 long | punct |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 horsehairs | amod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 strong | cc |
| 23 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 long | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 resonant | cc |
| 25 | resonant | resonant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 long | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Wainamoinen | five horsehairs | soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horsehair=Topic | |||
| 2 | lose | past · perfect · passive | the wild steeds of Pohyola | five horsehairs obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pasture | gerund | five horsehairs | there | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent horsehair=Theme |
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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