The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 48

I learned wisdom from the Mistress of that land; and indeed it was she who snatched me from the jaws of the sea and nursed me to health and strength.

Who acts: I, wisdom · What happens: learn, be, nurse · To what, where: wisdom, jaws, me, health

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 (I, wisdom), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 learned	nsubj
2	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 learned	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 Mistress	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Mistress	det
6	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 learned	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 land	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 land	det
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Mistress	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 snatched	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 snatched	cc
12	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	17 snatched	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 snatched	nsubj:outer
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 snatched	cop
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 snatched	nsubj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 snatched	nsubj
17	snatched	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 learned	parataxis
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 snatched	obj
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 jaws	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 jaws	det
21	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 snatched	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 sea	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sea	det
24	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 jaws	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 nursed	cc
26	nursed	nurse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 snatched	conj
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 nursed	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 health	case
29	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 nursed	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 strength	cc
31	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 health	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 learned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	learn	past	I	wisdom			from the Mistress of that land	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wisdom=Topic from mistress=Source
2	is	past	wisdom			the jaws of the sea	Mistress nsubj; who nsubj; me obj; indeed, snatch property	tree rules
3	nurse	past	wisdom not said here	me	health and strength			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Theme to health=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 48

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 48