The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 48
For a hammer he took a smooth stone from the brook; for tongs he cut a green sapling and bent it in the middle, forcing the two ends together.
Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: take, cut, bend, force · To what, where: smooth stone, brook, green sapling, sapling, middle, two ends
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), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 hammer | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hammer | det |
| 3 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stone | det |
| 7 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stone | amod |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 brook | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brook | det |
| 11 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 cut | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 tongs | case |
| 14 | tongs | tong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cut | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cut | nsubj |
| 16 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sapling | det |
| 18 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sapling | amod |
| 19 | sapling | sapling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cut | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bent | cc |
| 21 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 cut | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bent | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 middle | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 middle | det |
| 25 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bent | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 forcing | punct |
| 27 | forcing | force | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 bent | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ends | det |
| 29 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 ends | nummod |
| 30 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 forcing | obj |
| 31 | together | together | ADV | _ | 27 forcing | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Ilmarinen | a smooth stone | the brook | for a hammer | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent stone=Theme for hammer=Asset from brook=Source | ||
| 2 | cut | past | Ilmarinen | a green sapling | for tongs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent sapling=Product for tong=Asset | |||
| 3 | bend | past | Ilmarinen not said here | sapling | the middle | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme in middle=Location | |||
| 4 | force | gerund | Ilmarinen not said here | the two ends | together property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Recipient |
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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