The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 2
With finger-tips upon his lips he beckoned to the hero Ilmarinen and to the young heroes who stood beside him.
Who acts: Minstrel, young heroes · What happens: beckon, stand · To what, where: hero
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 (Minstrel, young 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 tips | case |
| 2 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tips | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 finger | punct |
| 4 | tips | tip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 beckoned | obl |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 lips | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lips | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 beckoned | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 beckoned | nsubj |
| 9 | beckoned | beckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 hero | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hero | det |
| 12 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beckoned | obl |
| 13 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 hero | appos |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 heroes | cc |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 heroes | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 heroes | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 heroes | amod |
| 18 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Ilmarinen | conj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 stood | nsubj |
| 20 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 heroes | acl:relcl |
| 21 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stood | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 beckoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beckon | past | Minstrel | the hero | with finger tips; upon Minstrel's lips | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to hero=Recipient | |||
| 2 | stand | past | the young heroes | beside Minstrel | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location |
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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