The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 116
No hammer was used, no axe nor mallet; but every nail and spoke and bolt was driven by a word of magic from the lips of the prince of minstrels.
Who acts: word · What happens: use, speak, drive, word · To what, where: hammer, bolt, lips, magic · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (word), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 hammer | det |
| 2 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 used | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 used | aux:pass |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 axe | punct |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 axe | det |
| 7 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 used | obl |
| 8 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 mallet | cc |
| 9 | mallet | mallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 axe | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 nail | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 nail | cc |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 nail | det |
| 13 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 used | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 spoke | cc |
| 15 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 used | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 driven | cc |
| 17 | bolt | bolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 driven | aux:pass |
| 19 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 spoke | ccomp |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 word | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 word | det |
| 22 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 driven | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 magic | case |
| 24 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 word | nmod |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 lips | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 lips | det |
| 27 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 driven | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 prince | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 prince | det |
| 30 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lips | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 minstrels | case |
| 32 | minstrels | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 prince | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past · passive | no hammer | no axe nor mallet obl; every nail parataxis | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | drive | past · passive | a word of magic | bolt | the lips of the prince of minstrels | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from lip=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | word | magic | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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