The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 71

And he, forgetful of his home and kinsmen, sat content in the glow of the blazing fire logs, and counted the days till the storm should pass, the weeks till the winter should end.

Who acts: Ilmarinen, storm, winter, blazing fire logs · What happens: sit, blaze, count, pass, end, glow · To what, where: content, glow

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 (Ilmarinen, storm, winter, blazing fire logs), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 sat	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sat	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 forgetful	punct
4	forgetful	forgetful	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 he	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 home	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 home	nmod:poss
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forgetful	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 kinsmen	cc
9	kinsmen	kinsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 home	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 he	punct
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 glow	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 glow	det
15	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	20 logs	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 logs	det
18	blazing	blaze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 logs	amod
19	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 logs	compound
20	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 glow	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 counted	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 counted	cc
23	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sat	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 days	det
25	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 counted	obj
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 pass	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 storm	det
28	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pass	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 pass	aux
30	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 counted	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 weeks	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 weeks	det
33	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 pass	obl
34	till	till	SCONJ	_	38 end	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 winter	det
36	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 end	nsubj
37	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 end	aux
38	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 pass	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sit	past	Ilmarinen	content	the glow of the blazing fire logs		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent content=Theme in glow=Location
2	blaze	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	count	past	Ilmarinen not said here			day	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
4	pass	should	the storm			week	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	end	should	the winter				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	glow		the blazing fire logs				nom glow «state 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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 71

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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 71