The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 56

He counted them over, giving to each a magic number—two tips of white swan feathers, a bottle of milk from a young red heifer, a grain of barley grown in a land beyond the sea, and the fleece of a lambkin not one day old.

Who acts: Smith · What happens: count over, give, grow · To what, where: ends, magic number, barley, land

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 (Smith), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 counted	nsubj
2	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 counted	obj
4	over	over	ADP	_	2 counted	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 giving	punct
6	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 counted	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 number	case
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 number	det
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 number	det
10	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 number	compound
11	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 giving	obl
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 tips	punct
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 tips	nummod
14	tips	tip	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 number	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 feathers	case
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 feathers	amod
17	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 feathers	compound
18	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tips	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bottle	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bottle	det
21	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tips	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 milk	case
23	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bottle	nmod
24	from	from	ADP	_	28 heifer	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 heifer	det
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 heifer	amod
27	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 heifer	amod
28	heifer	heifer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bottle	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 grain	punct
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 grain	det
31	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tips	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 barley	case
33	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 grain	nmod
34	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 barley	acl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 land	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 land	det
37	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 grown	obl
38	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	40 sea	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 sea	det
40	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 land	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 old	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 old	cc
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 fleece	det
44	fleece	fleece	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 old	nsubj
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 lambkin	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 lambkin	det
47	lambkin	lambkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 fleece	nmod
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 old	advmod
49	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 day	nummod
50	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 old	obl:unmarked
51	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 counted	parataxis
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 counted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	count over	past	Smith	ends = end			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	give	gerund	Smith not said here		each magic number two tips of white swan feathers and a bottle of milk from a young red heifer and a grain of barley		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to number=Recipient
3	grow	participle		barley not said here		a land beyond the sea	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location

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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The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 56