The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 3
The swordsmen shouted, the spearsmen poised their weapons, they waited only for Dame Louhi’s command.
Who acts: swordsmen, spearsmen, Dame · What happens: shout, poise, wait, command · To what, where: weapons · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (swordsmen, spearsmen, Dame), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 swordsmen | det |
| 2 | swordsmen | swordsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shouted | nsubj |
| 3 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 poised | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 spearsmen | det |
| 6 | spearsmen | spearsmen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 poised | nsubj |
| 7 | poised | poise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shouted | conj |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 weapons | nmod:poss |
| 9 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 poised | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 waited | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 waited | nsubj |
| 12 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shouted | conj |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 command | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 command | case |
| 15 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 command | nmod:poss |
| 16 | Louhi | Louhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Dame | flat |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Dame | case |
| 18 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 waited | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | the swordsmen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | poise | past | the spearsmen | spearsmen's weapons | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wait | past | swordsmen = swordsman | for Dame's command | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | command | Dame | nom command «communication 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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