The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 20
“The Great Pike lurks in the hidden places of the deep sea,” said Ilmarinen; “for he knows that I have forged a hook of iron that will some day be the cause of his undoing.”
Who acts: Great Pike lurks, Ilmarinen, that · What happens: say, know, forge, be, undo · To what, where: hook, cause · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Great Pike lurks, Ilmarinen, that), 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 | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lurks | det |
| 3 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lurks | amod |
| 4 | Pike | Pike | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lurks | compound |
| 5 | lurks | lurk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 said | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 places | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 places | det |
| 8 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 places | amod |
| 9 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lurks | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 12 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sea | amod |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 places | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lurks | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 lurks | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 knows | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 knows | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 knows | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 knows | nsubj |
| 22 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | ccomp |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 forged | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 forged | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 forged | aux |
| 26 | forged | forge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 knows | ccomp |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 hook | det |
| 28 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 forged | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 iron | case |
| 30 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hook | nmod |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 cause | nsubj |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 cause | aux |
| 33 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 day | det |
| 34 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 cause | nsubj |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 cause | cop |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 cause | det |
| 37 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 iron | conj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 undoing | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 undoing | nmod:poss |
| 40 | undoing | undoing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 cause | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 knows | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Great Pike lurks in the hidden places of the deep sea | Ilmarinen nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | Ilmarinen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | forge in a quote | present · perfect | the Great Pike lurks in the hidden places of the deep sea = lurk | a hook of iron and the cause | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Product | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | future | that | the cause | of Ilmarinen's undoing | tree rules | |||
| 5 | undo in a quote | Ilmarinen | nom undoing «act 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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