The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 21
O Maid of Beauty, it was for you that I forged the Sampo and performed those acts of magic which no other man would dare to undertake.
Who acts: kitchen, you, other man, magic · What happens: be, forge, perform, dare, undertake, act · To what, where: Sampo, acts, magic
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 (kitchen, you, other man, magic), 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 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 2 Maid | case |
| 2 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 forged | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Beauty | case |
| 4 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Maid | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Maid | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 you | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 you | cop |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 forged | nsubj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 forged | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 forged | nsubj |
| 12 | forged | forge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Sampo | det |
| 14 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 forged | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 performed | cc |
| 16 | performed | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 forged | conj |
| 17 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 acts | det |
| 18 | acts | act | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 performed | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 magic | case |
| 20 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 acts | nmod |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 dare | obj |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 man | det |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dare | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 dare | aux |
| 26 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 magic | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 undertake | mark |
| 28 | undertake | undertake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 dare | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 forged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | kitchen | for you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forge | past | you | the Sampo | of Maid of Beauty; I nsubj | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sampo=Product | |||
| 3 | perform | past | you not said here | that acts of magic | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent act=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dare | would | no other man | magic | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent which=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | undertake | to-infinitive | no other man not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | act | magic | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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