The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 31
Even Wainamoinen, so brave, so steadfast, turned pale as he gazed aloft and saw the peril that menaced them.
Who acts: Wainamoinen, peril · What happens: turn, gaze, see, menace · To what, where: peril, rowers
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 (Wainamoinen, peril), 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 | _ | 2 Wainamoinen | advmod |
| 2 | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 brave | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brave | punct |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 brave | advmod |
| 5 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 steadfast | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 steadfast | advmod |
| 8 | steadfast | steadfast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brave | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turned | punct |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 steadfast | conj |
| 11 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 turned | xcomp |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 gazed | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gazed | nsubj |
| 14 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 turned | advcl |
| 15 | aloft | aloft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 gazed | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gazed | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 peril | det |
| 19 | peril | peril | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 menaced | nsubj |
| 21 | menaced | menace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 peril | acl:relcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 menaced | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | participle | pale property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | gaze | past | Wainamoinen | aloft property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Wainamoinen not said here | the peril | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer peril=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | menace | past | the peril | rowers = rower | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
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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