The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 127
The frame was of copper, the share was of gold, the handles were tipped with silver.
Who acts: frame, share, copper · What happens: be, tip · To what, where: handles
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 (frame, share, copper), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 frame | det |
| 2 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 copper | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 copper | cop |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 copper | case |
| 5 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gold | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 share | det |
| 8 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gold | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gold | cop |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 gold | case |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 copper | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tipped | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 handles | det |
| 14 | handles | handle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 tipped | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 tipped | aux:pass |
| 16 | tipped | tip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 copper | acl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 silver | case |
| 18 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tipped | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 copper | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the frame | of copper and gold | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the share | of gold | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tip | past · passive | copper and gold not said here | the handles | with silver | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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