The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 1

This is the tale [D] which Wainamoinen, old and truthful, told to the listening Graybeard while the fire blazed and crackled on the hearth between them.

Who acts: This, fire · What happens: be, tell, listen, blaze, crackle · To what, where: tale, hearth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, fire), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 tale	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tale	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tale	det
4	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	[	[	PUNCT	_	6 D	punct
6	D	D	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tale	appos
7	]	]	PUNCT	_	6 D	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 old	nsubj
9	Wainamoinen	Wainamoinen	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 old	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 old	punct
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tale	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 truthful	cc
13	truthful	truthful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 old	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
15	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 old	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 Graybeard	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Graybeard	det
18	listening	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 Graybeard	amod
19	Graybeard	Graybeard	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 told	obl:agent
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 blazed	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fire	det
22	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 blazed	nsubj
23	blazed	blaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 old	advcl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 crackled	cc
25	crackled	crackle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 blazed	conj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 hearth	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hearth	det
28	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 crackled	obl
29	between	between	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 hearth	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tale	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	This	the tale		D appos	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	participle				the listening Graybeard obl:agent	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	listen	gerund					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	blaze	past	the fire				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	crackle	past	the fire not said here		the hearth between them		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hearth=Location

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 Wicked Hornet, sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 1