The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 36

In that dismal, snowy country men had never needed iron; they had no tools save tools of fish-bone; they had no weapons save sticks and stones and fists and feet.

Who acts: men, tools, weapons · What happens: not need, have, save · To what, where: iron, tools, sticks

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 (men, tools, weapons), 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	In	in	ADP	_	7 men	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 men	nsubj
3	dismal	dismal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 men	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dismal	punct
5	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 men	amod
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 men	compound
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 needed	obl
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 needed	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 needed	advmod
10	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 needed	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 needed	conj
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 tools	det
16	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 save	nsubj
17	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 had	ccomp
18	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 save	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 bone	case
20	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bone	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 fish	punct
22	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tools	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 had	conj
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 weapons	det
27	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 save	nsubj
28	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 had	ccomp
29	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 save	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 stones	cc
31	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sticks	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 fists	cc
33	fists	fist	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sticks	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 feet	cc
35	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sticks	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 needed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not need	past · perfect		iron	in dismal snowy country men that	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot iron=Theme
2	have	past	men = man			tree rules
3	save	present	no tools	tools of fish bone		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Theme
4	have	past	men = man			tree rules
5	save	present	no weapons	sticks and stones and fists and feet		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/10/36/

🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 36

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 36