The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 73
Bravely, too, did the ever-ready Ahti struggle to defend the Sampo, wielding his long arms valorously, until his strength failing he also was hurled into the hungry deep.
Who acts: strength · What happens: do, defend, wield, fail, hurl · To what, where: ready Ahti struggle, Sampo, long arms, struggle, hungry deep
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 (strength), 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 | Bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 5 did | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bravely | punct |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 did | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 too | punct |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 struggle | det |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 ready | advmod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ever | punct |
| 9 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 struggle | amod |
| 10 | Ahti | Ahti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 struggle | compound |
| 11 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 defend | mark |
| 13 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 struggle | acl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Sampo | det |
| 15 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 defend | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wielding | punct |
| 17 | wielding | wield | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 did | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 arms | nmod:poss |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 arms | amod |
| 20 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 wielding | obj |
| 21 | valorously | valorously | ADV | _ | 17 wielding | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 failing | punct |
| 23 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 26 failing | mark |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 strength | nmod:poss |
| 25 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 failing | nsubj |
| 26 | failing | fail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 wielding | conj |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 hurled | nsubj |
| 28 | also | also | ADV | _ | 30 hurled | advmod |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 hurled | aux:pass |
| 30 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 failing | ccomp |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 deep | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 deep | det |
| 33 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 deep | amod |
| 34 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 hurled | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the ready Ahti struggle | bravely property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent struggle=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | defend | to-infinitive | the ready Ahti struggle not said here | the Sampo | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sampo=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | wield | gerund | struggle's long arms | valorously property | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fail | gerund | struggle's strength | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | hurl | past · passive | struggle | the hungry deep | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme into deep=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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