The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 107

As he spoke the last words he clapped his hands together and shouted; and lo! the parts of the pine tree came suddenly into their right places, and it stood there as whole and as beautiful as it had been before the lightning smote it.

Who acts: virtue, parts, part · What happens: speak, clap, shout, come, stand, be · To what, where: last words, hands, right places · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Graybeard and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (virtue, parts, part), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 spoke	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 words	det
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spoke	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 clapped	nsubj
8	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 words	acl:relcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hands	nmod:poss
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 clapped	obj
11	together	together	ADV	_	8 clapped	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shouted	cc
13	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 clapped	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 parts	cc
16	lo	lo	INTJ	_	19 parts	discourse
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 lo	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 parts	det
19	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 came	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 tree	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tree	det
22	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tree	compound
23	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 parts	nmod
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spoke	parataxis
25	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	24 came	advmod
26	into	into	ADP	_	29 places	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 places	nmod:poss
28	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 places	amod
29	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 came	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 stood	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 stood	cc
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 stood	nsubj
33	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 came	conj
34	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 stood	advmod
35	as	as	ADP	_	36 whole	case
36	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 stood	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 beautiful	cc
38	as	as	ADV	_	39 beautiful	advmod
39	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 stood	conj
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 smote	mark
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 smote	nsubj:outer
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 smote	aux
43	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 smote	cop
44	before	before	SCONJ	_	47 smote	mark
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 lightning	det
46	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 smote	nsubj
47	smote	smite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 beautiful	advcl
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 smote	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	virtue	the last words			tree rules
2	clap	past	virtue	virtue's hands		together property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
3	shout speech: express	past	virtue not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	the parts of the pine tree		hands's right places	suddenly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into place=Initial_Location
5	stand	past	part		there	as whole	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past · perfect	part			the lightning nsubj; smite property	tree rules

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 Graybeard and His Son, sentence 107