The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 34
Colors of the rainbow, forms and figures without number, precious metals, floating vapors—all these were mingled in the caldron.
Who acts: Colors · What happens: float, mingle · To what, where: these, caldron, Colors
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 (Colors), 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 | Colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 rainbow | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rainbow | det |
| 4 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Colors | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 forms | punct |
| 6 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Colors | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 figures | cc |
| 8 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 forms | conj |
| 9 | without | without | ADP | _ | 10 number | case |
| 10 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forms | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 metals | punct |
| 12 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 metals | amod |
| 13 | metals | metal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Colors | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 vapors | punct |
| 15 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 vapors | amod |
| 16 | vapors | vapor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Colors | conj |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 mingled | punct |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 mingled | det:predet |
| 19 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 mingled | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 mingled | aux:pass |
| 21 | mingled | mingle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Colors | acl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 caldron | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 caldron | det |
| 24 | caldron | caldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mingled | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Colors | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | mingle | past · passive | Colors of the rainbow and forms without number and figures and precious metals and floating vapors not said here | these | the caldron | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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