The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 70
He wished to see whether anything had begun to shape itself from the magic mixture, whether anything had been brought forth by the mighty heat.
Who acts: bade, mighty heat · What happens: wish, see, begin, shape, bring · To what, where: anything, caldron, magic mixture · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (bade, mighty heat), 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 wished | nsubj |
| 2 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 see | mark |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wished | xcomp |
| 5 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 8 begun | mark |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 begun | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 begun | aux |
| 8 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 see | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 shape | mark |
| 10 | shape | shape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 begun | xcomp |
| 11 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 shape | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 mixture | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mixture | det |
| 14 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mixture | amod |
| 15 | mixture | mixture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shape | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 brought | punct |
| 17 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 21 brought | mark |
| 18 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 brought | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 brought | aux:pass |
| 21 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 wished | parataxis |
| 22 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 21 brought | advmod |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 heat | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 heat | det |
| 25 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 heat | amod |
| 26 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brought | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | bade | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | bade not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | begin | past · perfect · passive | anything | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | shape | to-infinitive | caldron | the magic mixture | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset itself=Product from mixture=Material | ||||
| 5 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the mighty heat | anything | forth property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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