The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 37
He pulled it bodily from the caldron, writhing, creeping, struggling, but unable to escape him.
Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: pull, creep, struggle, escape · To what, where: mixture, caldron, Ilmarinen
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 pulled | nsubj |
| 2 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pulled | obj |
| 4 | bodily | bodily | ADV | _ | 2 pulled | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 caldron | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 caldron | det |
| 7 | caldron | caldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pulled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 writhing | punct |
| 9 | writhing | writhing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caldron | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 creeping | punct |
| 11 | creeping | creep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 pulled | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 struggling | punct |
| 13 | struggling | struggle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 creeping | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 unable | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 unable | cc |
| 16 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pulled | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 escape | mark |
| 18 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 unable | xcomp |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 escape | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past | Ilmarinen | mixture | the caldron and writhing | bodily property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from caldron=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | creep | gerund | Ilmarinen not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | struggle | gerund | Ilmarinen not said here | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | escape | to-infinitive | Ilmarinen not said here | Ilmarinen | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Initial_Location |
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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