The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Opening, sentence 12
In doing this he has merely exercised the time-honored right of poets and story-tellers—the right to make new cloth out of old.
Who acts: weaver · What happens: do, exercise, honor, make · To what, where: this, honored right, new cloth, old
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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 2 doing | mark |
| 2 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 exercised | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 doing | obj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 exercised | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 exercised | aux |
| 6 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 7 exercised | advmod |
| 7 | exercised | exercise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 right | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 honored | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 time | punct |
| 11 | honored | honor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 right | amod |
| 12 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 exercised | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 poets | case |
| 14 | poets | poet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 right | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tellers | cc |
| 16 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tellers | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 story | punct |
| 18 | tellers | teller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 poets | conj |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 right | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 right | det |
| 21 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 exercised | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 make | mark |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 right | acl |
| 24 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cloth | amod |
| 25 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 make | obj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 old | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 old | case |
| 28 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 make | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 exercised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | gerund | weaver not said here | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | exercise | present · perfect | weaver | the honored right of poets and story tellers | the right obl; merely property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient | |||
| 3 | honor | participle | time | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | weaver not said here | new cloth | old | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cloth=Product |
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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