The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 72
Then he grasped the Minstrel’s knee just above the place where the wicked axe had struck it.
Who acts: wound · What happens: grasp, strike · To what, where: knee, place, wicked axe
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 (wound), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 grasped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grasped | nsubj |
| 3 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Minstrel | det |
| 5 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 knee | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Minstrel | case |
| 7 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grasped | obj |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 place | advmod |
| 9 | above | above | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grasped | obl |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 struck | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 axe | det |
| 14 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 axe | amod |
| 15 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 struck | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 struck | aux |
| 17 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 place | acl:relcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 struck | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grasp | past | wound | the Minstrel's knee | the place | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knee=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | strike | past · perfect · passive | the wicked axe | knee obj | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient it=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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