The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 43

He scanned it from every side; he touched up the more delicate parts; he readjusted its springs and wheels; he tested its strength and the speed of its running.

Who acts: workman, part · What happens: scan, touch up, readjust, test, run · To what, where: labor, side, delicate parts, strength

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 (workman, part), 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 scanned	nsubj
2	scanned	scan	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 scanned	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 side	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 side	det
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scanned	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 touched	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 touched	nsubj
9	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 scanned	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 touched	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 parts	det
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 delicate	advmod
13	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 parts	amod
14	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 touched	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 readjusted	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 readjusted	nsubj
17	readjusted	readjust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 scanned	conj
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 springs	nmod:poss
19	springs	spring	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 readjusted	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wheels	cc
21	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 springs	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 tested	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tested	nsubj
24	tested	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 scanned	parataxis
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 strength	nmod:poss
26	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tested	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 speed	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 speed	det
29	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tested	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 running	case
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 running	nmod:poss
32	running	running	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 speed	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 scanned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scan	past	workman	labor	every side			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	touch up	past	workman	the delicate parts				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme part=Co-Theme
3	readjust	past	workman			spring		vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	test	past	workman	part's strength			the speed of part's running conj	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme
5	run		part					nom running «act 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 43

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 43