The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 52

Dreadful was the confusion that followed, and sad would have been the fate of the heroes had not Wainamoinen, with unheard-of swiftness, let fall his sword of magic.

Who acts: Dreadful, confusion, sad fate · What happens: be, follow, have, let, fall · To what, where: confusion, sad fate, Wainamoinen, sword

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 (Dreadful, confusion, sad fate), 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	Dreadful	Dreadful	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 confusion	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 confusion	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 confusion	det
4	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 followed	nsubj
6	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 confusion	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fate	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fate	cc
9	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fate	amod
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 fate	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 fate	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 fate	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fate	det
14	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 confusion	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 heroes	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 heroes	det
17	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fate	nmod
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fate	acl
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 Wainamoinen	advmod
20	Wainamoinen	Wainamoinen	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 had	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 swiftness	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	26 swiftness	case
23	unheard	unheard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 swiftness	amod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 swiftness	punct
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 swiftness	case
26	swiftness	swiftness	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 let	punct
28	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 confusion	parataxis
29	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 let	xcomp
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 sword	nmod:poss
31	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fall	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 magic	case
33	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sword	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 confusion	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Dreadful	the confusion and the sad fate		tree rules
2	follow	past	the confusion and the sad fate			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	would · perfect	Dreadful not said here	the sad fate	of the heroes	tree rules
4	have	past	the sad fate not said here	Wainamoinen	with unheard swiftness	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	let	infinitive				tree rules
6	fall	infinitive		Dreadful's sword of magic		vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient sword=Result

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 Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 52

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 52