The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 34

And who were the two heroes who led them—one white-bearded and tall, the other sad-eyed and pale but with the limbs of a giant?

Who acts: two heroes · What happens: be, lead · To what, where: two heroes, heroes

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two heroes), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 heroes	cc
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 heroes	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heroes	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heroes	det
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 heroes	nummod
6	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 bearded	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 led	nsubj
8	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heroes	acl:relcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 led	obj
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 bearded	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 bearded	nsubj
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bearded	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 white	punct
14	bearded	bearded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tall	cc
16	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bearded	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 eyed	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 eyed	det
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 eyed	nsubj
20	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 eyed	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 sad	punct
22	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bearded	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 pale	cc
24	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 eyed	conj
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 limbs	cc
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 limbs	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 limbs	det
28	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 eyed	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 giant	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 giant	det
31	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 limbs	nmod
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 bearded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the two heroes				who nsubj	tree rules
2	lead	past	the two heroes	heroes = hero					vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 34

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 34