The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 44
The first day’s task was to build the furnace and the forge with yawning mouth and towering chimney.
Who acts: task, first day · What happens: be, yawn, tower, task · To what, where: mouth, chimney
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 (task, first day), 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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 task | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 day | case |
| 5 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 build | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 build | cop |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 build | mark |
| 8 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 furnace | det |
| 10 | furnace | furnace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 build | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 forge | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forge | det |
| 13 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 furnace | conj |
| 14 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 15 yawning | mark |
| 15 | yawning | yawn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 build | advcl |
| 16 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 yawning | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 towering | cc |
| 18 | towering | tower | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 yawning | conj |
| 19 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 towering | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 build | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the first day's task | the furnace and the forge obj; build property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | yawn | gerund | the first day's task not said here | mouth | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tower | gerund | the first day's task not said here | chimney | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chimney=Theme | ||||
| 4 | task | the first day | nom task «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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