The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 24

Then Wainamoinen, still singing, touched the locks with his wizard fingers and the bolts slid back; he pushed gently against the yielding metal and the nine mighty doors opened silently and without a sound.

Who acts: Wainamoinen, locks, nine mighty doors · What happens: sing, touch, slide back, push, open

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 (Wainamoinen, locks, nine mighty doors), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 touched	advmod
2	Wainamoinen	Wainamoinen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 touched	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 singing	punct
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 singing	advmod
5	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Wainamoinen	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wainamoinen	punct
7	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 locks	det
9	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 slid	nsubj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 fingers	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 fingers	nmod:poss
12	wizard	wizard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fingers	amod
13	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 locks	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bolts	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bolts	det
16	bolts	bolt	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fingers	conj
17	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 touched	ccomp
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 slid	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 pushed	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 pushed	nsubj
21	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 touched	conj
22	gently	gently	ADV	_	21 pushed	advmod
23	against	against	ADP	_	26 metal	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 metal	det
25	yielding	yielding	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 metal	compound
26	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pushed	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 opened	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 doors	det
29	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 doors	nummod
30	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 doors	amod
31	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 opened	nsubj
32	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 touched	conj
33	silently	silently	ADV	_	32 opened	advmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 silently	cc
35	without	without	ADP	_	37 sound	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 sound	det
37	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 opened	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 touched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund	Wainamoinen not said here	still		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	touch	past	Wainamoinen	then		tree rules
3	slide back	past	the locks with Wainamoinen's wizard fingers and the bolts			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	push	past	Wainamoinen		against the yielding metal; gently property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against metal=Theme
5	open	past	the nine mighty doors		without a sound; silently property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Flight, sentence 24

The tree

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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 24