The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 120
Then he bade the serving-men bring her back to the smithy; and when, with infinite labor, they had done this, he cut her in pieces and threw her back into the caldron.
Who acts: form, serving men, men · What happens: bade, bring, do, cut, throw back · To what, where: heifer, this, pieces, caldron
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (form, serving men, men), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 bade | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bade | nsubj |
| 3 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 men | det |
| 5 | serving | serving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 men | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 serving | punct |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bring | nsubj |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bade | ccomp |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bring | obj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 bring | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 smithy | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 smithy | det |
| 13 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 back | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 when | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 when | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 bade | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 labor | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 labor | case |
| 19 | infinite | infinite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 labor | amod |
| 20 | labor | labor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bade | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 done | punct |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 done | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 done | aux |
| 24 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 bade | parataxis |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 done | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 cut | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 cut | nsubj |
| 28 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bade | parataxis |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 cut | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 pieces | case |
| 31 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 cut | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 threw | cc |
| 33 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 cut | conj |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 threw | obj |
| 35 | back | back | ADV | _ | 33 threw | advmod |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 caldron | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 caldron | det |
| 38 | caldron | caldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 threw | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | form | then | with infinite labor | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bring | infinitive | the serving men | heifer | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | men = man | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | cut | past | form | heifer | pieces | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product | |||
| 5 | throw back | past | form not said here | heifer | into the caldron result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer she=Theme into caldron=Result |
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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