The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 57
These he mixed in a magic caldron, throwing upon them many bits of precious metals, with strange wild herbs and rank poisons and sweet honey dew.
Who acts: These · What happens: mix, throw · To what, where: magic caldron, many bits
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 (These), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 mixed | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mixed | nsubj |
| 3 | mixed | mix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 caldron | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 caldron | det |
| 6 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 caldron | amod |
| 7 | caldron | caldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mixed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 throwing | punct |
| 9 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 mixed | advcl |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 throwing | obl |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bits | amod |
| 13 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 throwing | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 metals | case |
| 15 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 metals | amod |
| 16 | metals | metal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bits | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 herbs | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 herbs | case |
| 19 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 herbs | amod |
| 20 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 herbs | amod |
| 21 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 throwing | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 poisons | cc |
| 23 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 poisons | compound |
| 24 | poisons | poison | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 herbs | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 dew | cc |
| 26 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 dew | amod |
| 27 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dew | compound |
| 28 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 herbs | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mix | past | These | a magic caldron | Smith nsubj | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | throw | gerund | These not said here | many bits of precious metals | upon ends = end | with strange wild herbs and rank poisons and sweet honey dew | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bit=Theme upon they=Destination |
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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