The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 57
Turn the mill over, thus, and it will grind salt—salt for seasoning, salt for the reindeer, salt for everything.
Who acts: you, mill · What happens: turn over, grind · To what, where: mill, salt
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 | Turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mill | det |
| 3 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Turn | obj |
| 4 | over | over | ADV | _ | 1 Turn | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thus | punct |
| 6 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 1 Turn | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 grind | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 grind | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 grind | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 grind | aux |
| 11 | grind | grind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Turn | conj |
| 12 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grind | obj |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 salt | punct |
| 14 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grind | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 seasoning | case |
| 16 | seasoning | seasoning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 salt | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 salt | punct |
| 18 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 salt | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 reindeer | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 reindeer | det |
| 21 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 salt | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 salt | punct |
| 23 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 salt | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 everything | case |
| 25 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 23 salt | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn over | imperative | you not said here | the mill | over, thus property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent mill=Theme | |||
| 2 | grind | future | mill | salt | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent salt=Beneficiary salt=Product |
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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