The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 32
He pushed the cinders aside; he uncovered the caldron and lifted the lid, slowly, cautiously.
Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: push, uncover, lift · To what, where: cinders, caldron, lid
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), 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 pushed | nsubj |
| 2 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cinders | det |
| 4 | cinders | cinder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pushed | obj |
| 5 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 2 pushed | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 uncovered | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 uncovered | nsubj |
| 8 | uncovered | uncover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pushed | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 caldron | det |
| 10 | caldron | caldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 uncovered | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lifted | cc |
| 12 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 uncovered | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lid | det |
| 14 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lifted | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 slowly | punct |
| 16 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 12 lifted | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cautiously | punct |
| 18 | cautiously | cautiously | ADV | _ | 12 lifted | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | past | Ilmarinen | the cinders | aside property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cinder=Theme | |||
| 2 | uncover | past | Ilmarinen | the caldron | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lift | past | Ilmarinen not said here | the lid | cautiously, slowly property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme |
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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