The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 138
“Yes, I forged the Sampo,” answered Ilmarinen; “and I hammered its rainbow cover.
Who acts: Ilmarinen, Minstrel · What happens: forge, answer, hammer · To what, where: rainbow cover · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilmarinen, Minstrel), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 forged | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 forged | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 forged | nsubj |
| 5 | forged | forge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sampo | det |
| 7 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sampo | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sampo | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 forged | parataxis |
| 11 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 hammered | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 hammered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hammered | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 hammered | nsubj |
| 16 | hammered | hammer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 forged | conj |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 cover | nmod:poss |
| 18 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cover | compound |
| 19 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hammered | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 forged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forge in a quote | past | Ilmarinen | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Ilmarinen | the Sampo nsubj | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hammer in a quote | past | the Minstrel = minstrel | prize's rainbow cover | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cover=Patient |
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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