The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 64
Without delay she set the mill to grinding; and wonderful was the way in which it obeyed her wishes.
Who acts: speech, mill · What happens: set, grind, be, obey, wish · To what, where: mill, wonderful way, wishes
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 (speech, 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 | Without | without | ADP | _ | 2 delay | case |
| 2 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mill | det |
| 6 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obj |
| 7 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 8 grinding | mark |
| 8 | grinding | grind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 set | advcl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 way | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wonderful | cc |
| 11 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 way | amod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 way | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 way | det |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | parataxis |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 obeyed | obl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 obeyed | nsubj |
| 18 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 way | acl:relcl |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 obeyed | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | speech | the mill | without delay | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient mill=Result | |||
| 2 | grind | gerund | speech not said here | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the wonderful way | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | obey | past | mill | speech's wishes | the wonderful way | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme | |||
| 5 | wish | speech | nom wish «feeling 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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