The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 45
On the second day he framed the bellows and covered it with stout reindeer hide.
Who acts: Ilmarinen, stout reindeer · What happens: frame, cover, hide · To what, where: bellows, 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 (Ilmarinen, stout reindeer), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 framed | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 framed | nsubj |
| 6 | framed | frame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bellows | det |
| 8 | bellows | bellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 framed | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 covered | cc |
| 10 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 framed | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 covered | obj |
| 12 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 15 hide | mark |
| 13 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 reindeer | amod |
| 14 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hide | nsubj |
| 15 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 covered | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 framed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frame | past | Ilmarinen | the bellows | day | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent bellow=Destination | |||
| 2 | cover | past | Ilmarinen not said here | chimney | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | ||||
| 3 | hide | present | stout reindeer | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=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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