The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 9
Wainamoinen sat upright in his sledge; his wound pained him; he was in much distress.
Who acts: Wainamoinen, wound · What happens: sit, pain, be, wound · To what, where: sledge, Wainamoinen, much distress
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 (Wainamoinen, 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 | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upright | upright | ADV | _ | 2 sat | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 sledge | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sledge | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 pained | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wound | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pained | nsubj |
| 10 | pained | pain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pained | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 distress | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 distress | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 distress | cop |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 distress | case |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 distress | amod |
| 17 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen's sledge | upright property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sledge=Location | |||
| 2 | pain | past | Wainamoinen's wound | Wainamoinen | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | past | wound | much distress | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wound | Wainamoinen | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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