The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 60
Ilmarinen set the caldron firmly in the furnace, he pushed it far into the yawning cavern.
Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: set, push · To what, where: caldron, furnace, yawning cavern
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 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 set | nsubj |
| 2 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 caldron | det |
| 4 | caldron | caldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 set | obj |
| 5 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 2 set | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 furnace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 furnace | det |
| 8 | furnace | furnace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 set | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pushed | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pushed | nsubj |
| 11 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 set | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pushed | obj |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 pushed | advmod |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 cavern | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cavern | det |
| 16 | yawning | yawning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cavern | compound |
| 17 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pushed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | Ilmarinen | the caldron | the furnace | firmly property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent caldron=Theme in furnace=Destination | ||
| 2 | push | past | Ilmarinen | caldron | the yawning cavern | far property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into cavern=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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