The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 94

Wainamoinen put the harp of fish-bone in his gnarly hands; he rested it upon his knees; very eagerly the little fellow swept the harp strings with the tips of his long fingers.

Who acts: Wainamoinen, little fellow · What happens: put, rest, sweep · To what, where: harp, gnarly hands, knees, harp strings

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, little fellow), 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 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 harp	det
4	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 bone	case
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bone	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 fish	punct
8	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 harp	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 hands	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hands	nmod:poss
11	gnarly	gnarly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hands	amod
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 put	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 rested	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 rested	nsubj
15	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 rested	obj
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 knees	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 knees	nmod:poss
19	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 rested	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 swept	punct
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 eagerly	advmod
22	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	26 swept	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fellow	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fellow	amod
25	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 swept	nsubj
26	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 strings	det
28	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 strings	compound
29	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 swept	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 tips	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 tips	det
32	tips	tip	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 swept	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 fingers	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 fingers	nmod:poss
35	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fingers	amod
36	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 tips	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	Wainamoinen	the harp of fish bone	Wainamoinen's gnarly hands		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent harp=Theme in hand=Destination
2	rest	past	Wainamoinen	harp	Wainamoinen's knees		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon knee=Location
3	sweep	past	the little fellow	the harp strings		with the tips of Wainamoinen's long fingers; eagerly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme string=Trajectory

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 94

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 94