The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 125
Like a thing of life it glided softly through the furnace door, bowed low before the wizard Smith, and waited to receive his judgment.
Who acts: life, Ilmarinen · What happens: glide, bow, wait, receive, judge · To what, where: furnace door, judgment
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 (life, Ilmarinen), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 thing | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 thing | det |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glided | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 life | case |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thing | nmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 glided | nsubj |
| 7 | glided | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 7 glided | advmod |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 door | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 11 | furnace | furnace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 door | compound |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glided | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bowed | punct |
| 14 | bowed | bow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 door | acl |
| 15 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 bowed | advmod |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 Smith | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Smith | det |
| 18 | wizard | wizard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Smith | amod |
| 19 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 bowed | obl:agent |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 waited | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 waited | cc |
| 22 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 glided | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 receive | mark |
| 24 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 waited | xcomp |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 judgment | nmod:poss |
| 26 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 receive | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 glided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glide | past | life | the furnace door | like a thing of life; softly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through door=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | bow | participle | the furnace door not said here | the wizard Smith obl:agent; low property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wait | past | life not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | receive | to-infinitive | life not said here | Ilmarinen's judgment | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judgment=Theme | ||||
| 5 | judge | Ilmarinen | nom judgment «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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