The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 18

“I caught them and fixed them securely in their places; I welded them into the vast sky-lid so they should never fall out nor fly away.”

Who acts: sparks, stars · What happens: catch, fix, weld, not fall out, fly away · To what, where: stars, places

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 (sparks, stars), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 caught	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 caught	nsubj
3	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 caught	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fixed	cc
6	fixed	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 caught	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fixed	obj
8	securely	securely	ADV	_	6 fixed	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 places	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 places	nmod:poss
11	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fixed	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 welded	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 welded	nsubj
14	welded	weld	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 caught	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 welded	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	21 lid	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lid	det
18	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 lid	amod
19	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lid	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 sky	punct
21	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 welded	obl
22	so	so	SCONJ	_	26 fall	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fall	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 fall	aux
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 fall	advmod
26	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 welded	advcl
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 fall	compound:prt
28	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	29 fly	cc
29	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 fall	conj
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 fly	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 caught	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	catch in a quote	past	the sparks = spark	stars = star			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	fix in a quote	past	the sparks = spark not said here	stars = star	stars's places	securely property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	weld in a quote	past	the sparks = spark	stars = star		into the vast sky lid	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Patient into lid=Co-Patient
4	not fall out in a quote	should	stars = star				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fly away in a quote	infinitive	stars = star not said here			away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 18