The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 41
Slowly, piece by piece and part by part, the magic Sampo with its wheels and levers grew into being.
Who acts: piece · What happens: grow
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 (piece), 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 | Slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 piece | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Slowly | punct |
| 3 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 piece | case |
| 5 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 piece | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 part | cc |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 piece | conj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 part | case |
| 9 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 part | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 magic | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 magic | det |
| 12 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 piece | conj |
| 13 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 magic | appos |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 wheels | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wheels | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 magic | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 levers | cc |
| 18 | levers | lever | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wheels | conj |
| 19 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 21 being | mark |
| 21 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 grew | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | piece by piece and part by part and the magic with part's wheels and levers | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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