The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 68
Thus the boasting Ilmarinen, having come suddenly, unexpectedly, unwillingly to the land of Pohyola, was conquered by the power of beauty.
Who acts: power · What happens: boast, have, come, conquer · To what, where: Ilmarinen, land
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Recipe. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (power), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boasting | det |
| 3 | boasting | boast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Thus | advcl |
| 4 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 boasting | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 having | punct |
| 6 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 boasting | conj |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 having | xcomp |
| 8 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 7 come | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 unexpectedly | punct |
| 10 | unexpectedly | unexpectedly | ADV | _ | 7 come | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 land | punct |
| 12 | unwillingly | unwillingly | ADV | _ | 15 land | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 land | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 land | det |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Pohyola | case |
| 17 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 conquered | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Pohyola | punct |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 conquered | aux:pass |
| 20 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 land | acl:relcl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 power | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 power | det |
| 23 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 conquered | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 beauty | case |
| 25 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 power | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thus | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boast speech: other | gerund | Ilmarinen | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | come | infinitive | the land | suddenly, unexpectedly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | conquer | past · passive | the power of beauty | the land not said here | of Pohyola | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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