The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 23

The fourth day came; it was half gone when the Minstrel uttered a shout so joyful that the woodlands rang with the sound, and the wild geese in the marshes answered it gleefully.

Who acts: fourth day, reindeer, Minstrel, woodlands, wild geese · What happens: come, be, utter, ring, answer · To what, where: shout, reindeer

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tree of Magic. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fourth day, reindeer, Minstrel, woodlands), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 gone	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gone	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	cop
8	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	9 gone	advmod
9	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 came	parataxis
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 uttered	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Minstrel	det
12	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 uttered	nsubj
13	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 shout	det
15	shout	shout	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 uttered	obj
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 joyful	advmod
17	joyful	joyful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 uttered	xcomp
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 rang	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 woodlands	det
20	woodlands	woodland	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 rang	nsubj
21	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 joyful	advcl
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 sound	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sound	det
24	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rang	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 answered	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 answered	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 geese	det
28	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 geese	amod
29	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 answered	nsubj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 marshes	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 marshes	det
32	marshes	marsh	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 geese	nmod
33	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 answered	obj
35	gleefully	gleefully	ADV	_	33 answered	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the fourth day			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	reindeer		go, half property	tree rules
3	utter speech: other	past	the Minstrel	a shout	joyful property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent shout=Topic
4	ring	past	the woodlands		with the sound	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with sound=Theme
5	answer speech: assert	past	the wild geese in the marshes	reindeer	gleefully property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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 Tree of Magic, sentence 23