The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 78
They closed the strong doors and bolted them and left the Sampo alone in its dark prison-house; but through the key-hole of the ninth lock of the ninth door there issued a sweet delightful whirring sound as of wheels rapidly turning.
Who acts: things · What happens: close, bolt, leave, issue, turn · To what, where: strong doors, things, Sampo, dark prison house, sweet delightful whirring sound, key hole
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 (things), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 closed | nsubj |
| 2 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 doors | det |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 doors | amod |
| 5 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 closed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bolted | cc |
| 7 | bolted | bolt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 closed | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bolted | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 left | cc |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bolted | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sampo | det |
| 12 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 left | obj |
| 13 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 10 left | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 house | nmod:poss |
| 16 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 house | amod |
| 17 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 house | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 prison | punct |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 issued | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 issued | cc |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 hole | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hole | det |
| 24 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hole | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 key | punct |
| 26 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 issued | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 lock | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 lock | det |
| 29 | ninth | ninth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 lock | amod |
| 30 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hole | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 door | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 door | det |
| 33 | ninth | ninth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 door | amod |
| 34 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lock | nmod |
| 35 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 door | advmod |
| 36 | issued | issue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 closed | conj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 sound | det |
| 38 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 sound | amod |
| 39 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 sound | amod |
| 40 | whirring | whirring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 sound | compound |
| 41 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 issued | obj |
| 42 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 44 wheels | case |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 as | fixed |
| 44 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 sound | nmod |
| 45 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 46 turning | advmod |
| 46 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 issued | advcl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 closed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | past | things = thing | the strong doors | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bolt | past | things = thing not said here | things = thing | vn gobble-39.3-1 «NP V NP up»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | things = thing not said here | the Sampo | door's dark prison house | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sampo=Theme in house=Location | ||
| 4 | issue | past | things = thing not said here | a sweet delightful whirring sound | the key hole of the ninth lock of the ninth door | as wheels | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme | ||
| 5 | turn | gerund | things = thing not said here | rapidly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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