The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 39
He turned it and twisted it and shaped it, and put each delicate part in its proper place.
Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: turn, twist, shape, put · To what, where: mixture, delicate part, proper place
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 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | 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 turned | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 twisted | cc |
| 5 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 twisted | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shaped | cc |
| 8 | shaped | shape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 shaped | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 put | cc |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 shaped | advcl |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 part | det |
| 14 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 part | amod |
| 15 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 place | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 place | nmod:poss |
| 18 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 place | amod |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Ilmarinen | mixture | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | twist | past | Ilmarinen not said here | mixture | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shape | past | Ilmarinen not said here | mixture | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | ||||
| 4 | put | infinitive | Ilmarinen not said here | each delicate part | mixture's proper place | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent part=Theme in place=Destination |
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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