The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 131
Even the hero Ilmarinen crouched himself down in the narrow hold and bewailed their great misfortune.
Who acts: hero · What happens: crouch down, bewail · To what, where: hero, narrow hold, great misfortune
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 (hero), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 hero | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hero | det |
| 3 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crouched | nsubj |
| 4 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hero | appos |
| 5 | crouched | crouch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 crouched | obj |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 crouched | compound:prt |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hold | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hold | det |
| 10 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hold | amod |
| 11 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crouched | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bewailed | cc |
| 13 | bewailed | bewail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 crouched | conj |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 misfortune | nmod:poss |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 misfortune | amod |
| 16 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bewailed | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 crouched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crouch down | past | the hero | hero | the narrow hold | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme | |||
| 2 | bewail | past | the hero not said here | Ilmarinen's great misfortune | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer misfortune=Stimulus |
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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