The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 122
The Maiden of the Air heard her and was pleased with her prayer.
Who acts: Maiden, Pohyola · What happens: hear, be, pray · To what, where: Pohyola
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maiden, Pohyola), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Maiden | det |
| 2 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Air | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Air | det |
| 5 | Air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Maiden | nmod |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heard | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pleased | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pleased | cop |
| 10 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 heard | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 prayer | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 prayer | nmod:poss |
| 13 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pleased | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Maiden of the Air | Pohyola | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the Maiden of the Air not said here | with Pohyola's prayer; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pray | Pohyola | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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