The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 90
I have no use for you!” and he seized the bow and threw it back into the boiling caldron.
Who acts: I, Ilmarinen · What happens: have, seize, throw back, boil · To what, where: use, bow, boiling caldron
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 use | det |
| 4 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 use | nmod |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 seized | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seized | nsubj |
| 11 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bow | det |
| 13 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seized | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 threw | cc |
| 15 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seized | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 threw | obj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 threw | advmod |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 caldron | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 caldron | det |
| 20 | boiling | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 caldron | amod |
| 21 | caldron | caldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 threw | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | no use | for you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Patient | |||
| 2 | seize in a quote | past | Ilmarinen | the bow | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw back in a quote | past | Ilmarinen not said here | bow | into the boiling caldron result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into caldron=Result | |||
| 4 | boil in a quote | gerund | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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