The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 24
From morning till evening, from evening till another morning, they worked with right good will, as their master directed them.
Who acts: winds, master · What happens: work, direct · To what, where: winds
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 (winds, master), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 morning | case |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 worked | obl |
| 3 | till | till | ADP | _ | 4 evening | case |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 morning | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 evening | punct |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 evening | case |
| 7 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 morning | appos |
| 8 | till | till | ADP | _ | 10 morning | case |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 morning | det |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 evening | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 morning | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 worked | nsubj |
| 13 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 17 will | mark |
| 15 | right | right | ADV | _ | 16 good | advmod |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 will | amod |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 worked | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 directed | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 directed | mark |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 master | nmod:poss |
| 21 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 directed | nsubj |
| 22 | directed | direct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 worked | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 directed | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 worked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | past | winds = wind | morning | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | direct | past | winds's master | winds = wind | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
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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