The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 65
She filled her house with flour; she filled her barns with salt; she filled all her strong boxes with gold and silver.
Who acts: speech · What happens: fill · To what, where: house, barns, strong boxes
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), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 filled | nsubj |
| 2 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 house | nmod:poss |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 filled | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 flour | case |
| 6 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 filled | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 filled | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 filled | nsubj |
| 9 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 filled | conj |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 barns | nmod:poss |
| 11 | barns | barn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 filled | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 salt | case |
| 13 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 filled | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 filled | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 filled | nsubj |
| 16 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 filled | conj |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 boxes | det:predet |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 boxes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 boxes | amod |
| 20 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 filled | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 gold | case |
| 22 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 boxes | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 silver | cc |
| 24 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gold | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | speech | speech's house | with flour | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent house=Patient with flour=Instrument | |||
| 2 | fill | past | speech | speech's barns | with salt | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent barn=Patient with salt=Instrument | |||
| 3 | fill | past | speech | speech's strong boxes | with gold and silver | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent box=Patient with gold=Instrument |
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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