The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 53
Cunning, indeed, was Wainamoinen, cunning and old; and when he saw the work of his magic, he was pleased beyond measure.
Who acts: Cunning, wizard, magic · What happens: be, see, work · To what, where: Wainamoinen cunning, work
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 (Cunning, wizard, magic), 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 | Cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cunning | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cunning | punct |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 1 Cunning | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cunning | punct |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cunning | cop |
| 6 | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cunning | compound |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cunning | punct |
| 8 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 old | cc |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cunning | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 saw | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cunning | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 work | det |
| 17 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 magic | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 magic | nmod:poss |
| 20 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 work | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 pleased | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 pleased | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 pleased | cop |
| 24 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 saw | conj |
| 25 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 26 measure | case |
| 26 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pleased | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cunning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Cunning | Wainamoinen cunning | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Cunning not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | see | past | wizard | the work of wizard's magic | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer work=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | past | wizard | beyond measure; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | work | wizard's magic | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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