The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 58
What ails you—you, who hammered out the sky and set the stars in their places—you, the prince of wizards, the king of boasters?”
Who acts: you · What happens: ail, hammer out, set · To what, where: you, sky, stars, places
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 (you), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 ails | nsubj |
| 2 | ails | ail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 ails | obj |
| 4 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 hammered | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 hammered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hammered | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 hammered | nsubj |
| 8 | hammered | hammer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ails | parataxis |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 hammered | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sky | det |
| 11 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hammered | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hammered | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stars | det |
| 15 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 set | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 places | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 places | nmod:poss |
| 18 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 set | obl |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 you | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 ails | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 prince | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 prince | det |
| 23 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 you | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 wizards | case |
| 25 | wizards | wizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 prince | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 king | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 king | det |
| 28 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ails | parataxis |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 boasters | case |
| 30 | boasters | boaster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 king | nmod |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 28 king | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 ails | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ail | present | you | What nsubj; the king of boasters parataxis | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient you=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | hammer out | past | you | the sky | who nsubj | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sky=Patient | |||
| 3 | set | past | you not said here | the stars | stars's places | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent star=Theme in place=Destination |
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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