The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 47
Ilmarinen called to his ten serving-men and put the precious Sampo upon their shoulders.
What happens: call, put · To what, where: Ilmarinen, ten serving men, precious Sampo, shoulders · 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: 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 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 men | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 men | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 men | nummod |
| 6 | serving | serving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 men | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 serving | punct |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 called | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 put | cc |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 called | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sampo | det |
| 12 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Sampo | amod |
| 13 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obj |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 shoulders | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 16 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 put | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle · passive | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen's ten serving men | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to man=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | the precious Sampo | men's shoulders | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sampo=Theme upon shoulder=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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