The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 56
Lay it on this side and it will grind flour—flour for your kitchen, flour for your neighbors, flour for the market.
Who acts: you, mill · What happens: lay, grind · To what, where: mill, side, flour
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 (you, mill), 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 | Lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Lay | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 side | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 side | det |
| 5 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lay | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 grind | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 grind | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 grind | aux |
| 9 | grind | grind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Lay | conj |
| 10 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grind | obj |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 flour | punct |
| 12 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grind | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 kitchen | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 kitchen | nmod:poss |
| 15 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flour | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 flour | punct |
| 17 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flour | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 neighbors | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 20 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 flour | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 flour | punct |
| 22 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flour | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 market | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 market | det |
| 25 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grind | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | imperative | you not said here | mill | this side | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on side=Destination | |||
| 2 | grind | future | mill | flour | for the market; flour for your kitchen and flour for your neighbors and flour obl | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent flour=Material for market=Beneficiary |
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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