The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 36
He thrust his tongs into the mixture, and seized it with the grip of a giant.
Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: thrust, seize, grip · To what, where: tongs, mixture, giant
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 thrust | nsubj |
| 2 | thrust | thrust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 tongs | nmod:poss |
| 4 | tongs | tong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 thrust | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 mixture | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mixture | det |
| 7 | mixture | mixture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thrust | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seized | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 seized | cc |
| 10 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thrust | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seized | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 grip | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 grip | det |
| 14 | grip | grip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seized | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 giant | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 giant | det |
| 17 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grip | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thrust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thrust | past | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen's tongs | the mixture | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tong=Theme | |||
| 2 | seize | past | Ilmarinen not said here | mixture | with the grip of a giant | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | grip | a giant | nom grip «act transitive»: of=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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