The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 9

He told them how he had broken the mountains with his hammer, how he had conquered wild Iron and imprisoned him in his smithy, and how, from a single lump of metal, he had hammered out the sky and set it up as a lid to cover the land and the sea.

Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: tell, break, conquer, imprison, hammer out, set up · To what, where: Herdsmen, mountains, wild Iron, Ilmarinen, smithy, sky · 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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	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 told	iobj
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 broken	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 broken	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 broken	aux
7	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 told	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mountains	det
9	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 broken	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 hammer	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hammer	nmod:poss
12	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 broken	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 conquered	punct
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 conquered	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 conquered	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 conquered	aux
17	conquered	conquer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 broken	parataxis
18	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Iron	amod
19	Iron	Iron	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 conquered	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 imprisoned	cc
21	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 conquered	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 imprisoned	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 smithy	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 smithy	nmod:poss
25	smithy	smithy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 imprisoned	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 how	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 how	cc
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 told	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 lump	punct
30	from	from	ADP	_	33 lump	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 lump	det
32	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 lump	amod
33	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 how	appos
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 metal	case
35	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lump	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 hammered	nsubj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 hammered	aux
39	hammered	hammer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 told	ccomp
40	out	out	ADP	_	39 hammered	compound:prt
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 sky	det
42	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 hammered	obj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 set	cc
44	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 hammered	conj
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 set	obj
46	up	up	ADP	_	44 set	compound:prt
47	as	as	ADP	_	49 lid	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 lid	det
49	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 set	obl
50	to	to	PART	_	51 cover	mark
51	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 set	advcl
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 land	det
53	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 cover	obj
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 sea	cc
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 sea	det
56	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 land	conj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Ilmarinen		Herdsmen = herdsman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	break	past · perfect	Ilmarinen	the mountains			with Ilmarinen's hammer	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient with hammer=Instrument
3	conquer	past · perfect	Ilmarinen	wild Iron				vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=Patient
4	imprison	past	Ilmarinen not said here	Ilmarinen		Ilmarinen's smithy		vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in smithy=Destination
5	hammer out	past · perfect	Ilmarinen	the sky				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sky=Patient
6	set up	infinitive	Ilmarinen not said here	sky			as a lid	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result
7	cover	to-infinitive	Ilmarinen not said here	the land and the sea				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme land=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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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 9