The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 126
It had been shaped and put together with great skill, and every line was a line of beauty.
Who acts: line · What happens: shape, put together, be · To what, where: life, line
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 (line), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shaped | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shaped | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 shaped | aux:pass |
| 4 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 put | cc |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 shaped | conj |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 put | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 skill | case |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 skill | amod |
| 10 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 line | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 line | cc |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 line | det |
| 14 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 line | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 line | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 line | det |
| 17 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shaped | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 beauty | case |
| 19 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 line | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shape | past · perfect · passive | life | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | put together | participle | with great skill; together property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | every line | a line | of beauty | tree rules |
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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