The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 20
Wainamoinen leaped from his sledge and ran forward; he stood in the doorway and called loudly to his busy friend:
Who acts: Wainamoinen · What happens: leap, run, stand, call · To what, where: sledge, doorway, busy friend · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wainamoinen), 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 leaped | nsubj |
| 2 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 sledge | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sledge | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leaped | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ran | cc |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 leaped | conj |
| 8 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 7 ran | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stood | nsubj |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 leaped | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 doorway | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 doorway | det |
| 14 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 called | cc |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stood | conj |
| 17 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 16 called | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 friend | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 friend | nmod:poss |
| 20 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 friend | amod |
| 21 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 called | obl |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | past | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen's sledge | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from sledge=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | run | past | Wainamoinen not said here | forward property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | Wainamoinen | the doorway | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=Location | ||||
| 4 | call | past | Wainamoinen not said here | Wainamoinen's busy friend | loudly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to friend=Recipient |
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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