The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 66

Even the hero Ilmarinen, the mighty wizard, could see no way of escape from their pitiless pursuers, and he, too, losing all his courage, began to bewail their luckless fate.

Who acts: hero, Ilmarinen, heroes · What happens: see, lose, begin, bewail, fate · To what, where: way, pitiless pursuers, courage, luckless fate

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Pursuit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hero, Ilmarinen, 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	Even	even	ADV	_	3 hero	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hero	det
3	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	nsubj
4	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hero	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wizard	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wizard	det
7	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wizard	amod
8	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Ilmarinen	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hero	punct
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 escape	case
15	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 way	nmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	19 pursuers	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 pursuers	nmod:poss
18	pitiless	pitiless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pursuers	amod
19	pursuers	pursuer	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 see	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 losing	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 losing	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 losing	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 he	punct
24	too	too	ADV	_	26 losing	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 losing	punct
26	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 see	advcl
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 courage	det:predet
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 courage	nmod:poss
29	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 losing	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 began	punct
31	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 see	parataxis
32	to	to	PART	_	33 bewail	mark
33	bewail	bewail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 began	xcomp
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 fate	nmod:poss
35	luckless	luckless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fate	amod
36	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bewail	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see	could	the hero	no way of escape	heroes's pitiless pursuers	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
2	lose	gerund	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen's courage		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Eventuality
3	begin	past				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	bewail	to-infinitive		heroes's luckless fate		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus
5	fate		heroes = hero			nom fate «event transitive»: 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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The tree

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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 66