The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 79
The Sampo was grinding treasures for Dame Louhi’s people, and laying them up for future uses—richness for the land, golden sap for the trees, and warm and balmy breezes to make all things flourish.
Who acts: Sampo, laying, things · What happens: grind, lay up, use, make, flourish · To what, where: treasures, richness, things
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 (Sampo, laying, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sampo | det |
| 2 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grinding | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grinding | aux |
| 4 | grinding | grind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grinding | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 7 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 people | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Louhi | Louhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Dame | flat |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Dame | case |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grinding | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 uses | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 uses | cc |
| 13 | laying | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 uses | csubj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 laying | obj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 laying | compound:prt |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 future | case |
| 17 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laying | obl |
| 18 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 grinding | conj |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 richness | punct |
| 20 | richness | richness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 uses | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 land | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 land | det |
| 23 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 richness | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sap | punct |
| 25 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sap | amod |
| 26 | sap | SAP | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 richness | appos |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 trees | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 trees | det |
| 29 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 sap | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 breezes | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 breezes | cc |
| 32 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 breezes | amod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 balmy | cc |
| 34 | balmy | balmy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 warm | conj |
| 35 | breezes | breeze | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 richness | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 make | mark |
| 37 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 uses | advcl |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 things | det |
| 39 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 make | obj |
| 40 | flourish | flourish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 things | acl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grinding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grind | past · progressive | the Sampo | treasures | for Dame's people | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent treasure=Product for people=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | lay up | gerund | treasures = treasure | for future | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Result for future=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | use | present | laying | richness and warm breezes | for the land | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent richness=Theme for land=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | laying not said here | all things | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product | ||||
| 5 | flourish | present | all things not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP 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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