The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 70
It kept on grinding, grinding; and no matter on which side it was placed, its wheels kept running, and flour or salt or gold and silver kept pouring out in endless streams.
Who acts: more, wheels, flour · What happens: keep, grind, place, run, pour out · To what, where: matter, endless streams
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 (more, wheels, flour), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 4 grinding | mark |
| 4 | grinding | grind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 kept | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 grinding | punct |
| 6 | grinding | grind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 grinding | conj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 placed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 placed | cc |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 matter | det |
| 10 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 12 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 13 side | det |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 matter | nmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 placed | aux:pass |
| 16 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 kept | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 kept | punct |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wheels | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 kept | nsubj |
| 20 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 placed | conj |
| 21 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 kept | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 kept | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 kept | cc |
| 24 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 kept | nsubj |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 salt | cc |
| 26 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flour | conj |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 gold | cc |
| 28 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flour | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 silver | cc |
| 30 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flour | conj |
| 31 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kept | conj |
| 32 | pouring | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 kept | xcomp |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 pouring | compound:prt |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 streams | case |
| 35 | endless | endless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 streams | amod |
| 36 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 pouring | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | more | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | grind | gerund | more not said here | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | grind | gerund | more not said here | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | place | past · passive | no matter on which side | more nsubj:pass | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | keep | past | more's wheels | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | run | gerund | more's wheels not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | keep | past | flour or salt or gold and silver | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | pour out | gerund | flour or salt or gold and silver not said here | endless streams | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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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