The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 44
Finally, after the mill itself was proved satisfactory, he forged the lid to cover it; and the lid was the most marvellous part of all—as many-colored as the rainbow and embossed with gold and lined with silver and ornamented with beautiful pictures.
Who acts: workman, lid · What happens: prove, forge, cover, be, color, emboss · To what, where: mill, lid, marvellous part
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, lid), 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 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 5 mill | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Finally | punct |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 mill | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mill | det |
| 5 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 proved | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 5 mill | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 proved | aux:pass |
| 8 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | satisfactory | satisfactory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 proved | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 forged | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 forged | nsubj |
| 12 | forged | forge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 proved | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lid | det |
| 14 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 forged | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 cover | mark |
| 16 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 forged | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cover | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 part | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 part | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lid | det |
| 21 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 part | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 part | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 part | det |
| 24 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 25 marvellous | advmod |
| 25 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 part | amod |
| 26 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 proved | parataxis |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 all | case |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 part | nmod |
| 29 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 colored | punct |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 colored | mark |
| 31 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 colored | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 many | punct |
| 33 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 proved | conj |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 rainbow | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 rainbow | det |
| 36 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 colored | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 embossed | cc |
| 38 | embossed | emboss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 colored | conj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 gold | case |
| 40 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 embossed | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 lined | cc |
| 42 | lined | line | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 proved | conj |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 silver | case |
| 44 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 lined | obl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 ornamented | cc |
| 46 | ornamented | ornament | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 lined | conj |
| 47 | with | with | ADP | _ | 49 pictures | case |
| 48 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 pictures | amod |
| 49 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 ornamented | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 proved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | past · passive | the mill mill | satisfactory property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | forge | past | workman | the lid | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Product | ||||
| 3 | cover | to-infinitive | workman not said here | lid | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the lid | the marvellous part | of all | tree rules | |||
| 5 | color | participle | as the rainbow | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | emboss | participle | with gold | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme | |||||
| 7 | line | participle | with silver | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with silver=Theme | |||||
| 8 | ornament | participle | with beautiful pictures | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with picture=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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