The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 39
At a sign from the Minstrel the young heroes, with Ilmarinen as their captain, seized hold of it and carried it forth from the hill of copper.
Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: seize, carry, hold · To what, where: hold, sign
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 (Ilmarinen), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sign | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sign | det |
| 3 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carried | obl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Minstrel | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Minstrel | det |
| 6 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sign | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 heroes | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 heroes | amod |
| 9 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Minstrel | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ilmarinen | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 Ilmarinen | case |
| 12 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 carried | nsubj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 captain | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 captain | nmod:poss |
| 15 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Ilmarinen | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hold | punct |
| 17 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 hold | amod |
| 18 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 captain | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 hold | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 carried | cc |
| 22 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 carried | obj |
| 24 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 22 carried | advmod |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 hill | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hill | det |
| 27 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carried | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 copper | case |
| 29 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hill | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | participle | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | carry | past | Ilmarinen as Ilmarinen's captain | hold | a sign from the Minstrel and the young heroes | from the hill of copper; forth property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from hill=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | hold | hold | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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