The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 113
The Minstrel thanked him and then began to chant the magic spells by which to put the beams and boards in their places.
Who acts: Minstrel, magic · What happens: thank, begin, chant, spell, put · To what, where: dwarf, beams, places
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 (Minstrel, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Minstrel | det |
| 2 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thanked | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 began | cc |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 began | advmod |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 chant | mark |
| 9 | chant | chant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 began | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 magic | det |
| 11 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spells | nsubj |
| 12 | spells | spell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 chant | ccomp |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 put | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 put | mark |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 spells | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 beams | det |
| 18 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 put | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 boards | cc |
| 20 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 beams | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 places | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 places | nmod:poss |
| 23 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 put | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the Minstrel | dwarf | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the Minstrel not said here | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | chant | to-infinitive | the Minstrel not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | spell | present | the magic | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | put | to-infinitive | the magic not said here | the beams and boards | Minstrel's places | which obl | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beam=Theme by which=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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