The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 16
And Ilmarinen answered, “Feed my fire, so that I may forge the wondrous Sampo.”
Who acts: Ilmarinen, my · What happens: answer, feed, forge, fire · To what, where: fire, wondrous Sampo · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilmarinen, my), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 answered | cc |
| 2 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Feed | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Feed | punct |
| 6 | Feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fire | nmod:poss |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Feed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forge | punct |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 forge | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 so | fixed |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 forge | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 forge | aux |
| 14 | forge | forge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 Feed | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Sampo | det |
| 16 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Sampo | amod |
| 17 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 forge | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Feed | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Feed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Ilmarinen | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | feed in a quote | infinitive | my fire | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | forge in a quote | may | Ilmarinen | the wondrous Sampo | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sampo=Product | ||||
| 4 | fire in a quote | my | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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