The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 74
He hung the horsehairs in their places, he stretched them tight, he gave to each its proper length and tension.
Who acts: Wainamoinen · What happens: hang, stretch, give · To what, where: horsehairs, places, proper length
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hung | nsubj |
| 2 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 horsehairs | det |
| 4 | horsehairs | horsehair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hung | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 places | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 places | nmod:poss |
| 7 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hung | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stretched | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stretched | nsubj |
| 10 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hung | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stretched | obj |
| 12 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 10 stretched | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hung | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 length | case |
| 17 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 length | det |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 length | nmod:poss |
| 19 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 length | amod |
| 20 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 tension | cc |
| 22 | tension | tension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 length | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | Wainamoinen | the horsehairs | horsehairs's places | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horsehair=Theme in place=Destination | |||
| 2 | stretch | past | Wainamoinen | horsehairs = horsehair | tight property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 3 | give | past | Wainamoinen | place's proper length and tension | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to length=Recipient |
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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