The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 42

The wizard workman forged it with infinite skill and patience, for well he knew that one false stroke would undo all his labor, would be fatal to all his hopes.

Who acts: wizard workman, workman, one false stroke, labor · What happens: forge, know, undo, be, hope · To what, where: part, labor · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wizard workman, workman, one false stroke, labor), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 workman	det
2	wizard	wizard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 workman	amod
3	workman	workman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forged	nsubj
4	forged	forge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forged	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 skill	case
7	infinite	infinite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 skill	amod
8	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forged	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 patience	cc
10	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 skill	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 knew	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 knew	mark
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 knew	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 knew	nsubj
15	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forged	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 undo	mark
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 stroke	nummod
18	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stroke	amod
19	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 undo	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 undo	aux
21	undo	undo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 knew	ccomp
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 labor	det:predet
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 labor	nmod:poss
24	labor	labor	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 undo	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fatal	punct
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 fatal	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 fatal	cop
28	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 labor	acl:relcl
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 hopes	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 hopes	det:predet
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 hopes	nmod:poss
32	hopes	hope	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 fatal	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 forged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	forge	past	the wizard workman	part	with infinite skill and patience	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
2	know	past	workman		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	undo	would	one false stroke	workman's labor		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent labor=Patient
4	is	would	workman's labor not said here		to workman's hopes; fatal property	tree rules
5	hope		workman			nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 42

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 42