The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 74
“This is a beautiful thing,” said Ilmarinen, “but it is not the Sampo.”
Who acts: This, Ilmarinen, bow · What happens: be, say, not be · To what, where: beautiful thing, Sampo · 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 (This, Ilmarinen, bow), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 thing | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 thing | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thing | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 thing | det |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thing | amod |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thing | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 thing | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Sampo | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Sampo | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 Sampo | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 Sampo | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Sampo | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 Sampo | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Sampo | det |
| 18 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Ilmarinen | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | a beautiful thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Ilmarinen but the Sampo | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is a in a quote | present | bow | the Sampo | tree rules |
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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