The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 106
He planed them, he sawed them, he fashioned them with infinite care until each was of the proper length and thickness.
Who acts: Sampsa, each · What happens: plane, saw, be · To what, where: boards
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sampsa, each), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 planed | nsubj |
| 2 | planed | plane | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 planed | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sawed | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sawed | nsubj |
| 6 | sawed | saw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 planed | conj |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sawed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fashioned | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fashioned | nsubj |
| 10 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 planed | parataxis |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fashioned | nsubj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 care | case |
| 13 | infinite | infinite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 care | amod |
| 14 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fashioned | obl |
| 15 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 21 length | mark |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 length | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 length | cop |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 length | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 length | det |
| 20 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 length | amod |
| 21 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 planed | advcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 thickness | cc |
| 23 | thickness | thickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 length | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 planed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plane | past | Sampsa | boards = board | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | saw | past | Sampsa | boards = board | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | each | of the proper length and thickness; thickness conj | tree rules |
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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