The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Opening, sentence 11
He has combined various parts, as pleased his fancy, into one complete harmonious fabric, and, while he has retained much of the original warp and woof, he has added various and many colorings and connecting threads of his own invention.
Who acts: weaver · What happens: combine, retain, add, connect, fancy, invent · To what, where: various parts, much, threads
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weaver), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 combined | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 combined | aux |
| 3 | combined | combine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 parts | amod |
| 5 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 combined | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fancy | punct |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 fancy | case |
| 8 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fancy | amod |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fancy | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 combined | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fabric | punct |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 fabric | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 fabric | nummod |
| 14 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fabric | amod |
| 15 | harmonious | harmonious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fabric | amod |
| 16 | fabric | fabric | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 combined | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 retained | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 retained | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 retained | punct |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 retained | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 retained | nsubj |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 retained | aux |
| 23 | retained | retain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 combined | conj |
| 24 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 retained | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 warp | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 warp | det |
| 27 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 warp | amod |
| 28 | warp | warp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 much | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 woof | cc |
| 30 | woof | woof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 warp | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 added | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 added | nsubj |
| 33 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 added | aux |
| 34 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 combined | parataxis |
| 35 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 added | xcomp |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 colorings | cc |
| 37 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 colorings | amod |
| 38 | colorings | coloring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 various | conj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 connecting | cc |
| 40 | connecting | connect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 added | conj |
| 41 | threads | thread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 connecting | obj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 invention | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 invention | nmod:poss |
| 44 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 invention | amod |
| 45 | invention | invention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 threads | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 combined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | combine | present · perfect | weaver | various parts | as weaver's pleased fancy; one complete harmonious fabric parataxis | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient | |||
| 2 | retain | present · perfect | weaver | much of the original warp and woof | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | present · perfect | weaver | various property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | connect | gerund | weaver not said here | threads of weaver's own invention | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Patient | ||||
| 5 | fancy | weaver | nom fancy «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | invent | weaver | nom invention «cognition transitive»: poss=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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