The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 22
They obeyed her, and beneath her wings she hid her hundred swordsmen, while upon her tail she placed her thousand spearsmen.
Who acts: as, Mistress · What happens: obey, hide, place · To what, where: Mistress, hundred swordsmen, wings, thousand spearsmen, tail
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (as, Mistress), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 obeyed | nsubj |
| 2 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 obeyed | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hid | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hid | cc |
| 6 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 8 wings | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wings | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hid | obl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hid | nsubj |
| 10 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 obeyed | parataxis |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 swordsmen | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 swordsmen | nummod |
| 13 | swordsmen | swordsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hid | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 placed | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 placed | mark |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 tail | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 tail | nmod:poss |
| 18 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 placed | obl |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 placed | nsubj |
| 20 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hid | conj |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 spearsmen | nmod:poss |
| 22 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 spearsmen | nummod |
| 23 | spearsmen | spearsmen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 placed | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past | as = a | Mistress | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hide | past | Mistress | Mistress's hundred swordsmen | Mistress's wings | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent swordsman=Patient beneath wing=Location | |||
| 3 | place | past | Mistress | Mistress's thousand spearsmen | Mistress's tail | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent spearsmen=Theme upon tail=Destination |
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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