The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 15

Then the master Smith, grimy with soot and gray with ashes, would begin to tell of a hoe he had beaten out, or a gold ring he had fashioned; but ere he had spoken a dozen words his mind would wander far away to a low-roofed dwelling in the Frozen Land, and the rest of his speech would be a burning discourse in praise of the Maid of Beauty.

Who acts: master, gold ring, mind, rest · What happens: begin, tell, beat out, have, speak, wander · To what, where: hoe, ere, dozen words, Frozen Land, burning discourse, praise · 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 (master, gold ring, mind, rest), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 begin	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 master	det
3	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 begin	nsubj
4	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 master	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grimy	punct
6	grimy	grimy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 master	amod
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 soot	case
8	soot	soot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grimy	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gray	cc
10	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 soot	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 ashes	case
12	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gray	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 master	punct
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 begin	aux
15	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 tell	mark
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 begin	xcomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 hoe	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hoe	det
20	hoe	hoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tell	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 beaten	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 beaten	aux
23	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 hoe	acl:relcl
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 beaten	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 had	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 ring	det
28	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ring	compound
29	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	nsubj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	ccomp
32	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 had	xcomp
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 spoken	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 spoken	cc
35	ere	ere	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 spoken	nsubj:pass
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 spoken	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 spoken	aux
38	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 begin	parataxis
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 dozen	det
40	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 words	nummod
41	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 spoken	obj
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 mind	nmod:poss
43	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 wander	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 wander	aux
45	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 words	acl:relcl
46	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	47 away	advmod
47	away	away	ADV	_	45 wander	advmod
48	to	to	SCONJ	_	52 roofed	mark
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 roofed	det
50	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 roofed	compound
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 low	punct
52	roofed	roof	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 away	advcl
53	dwelling	dwell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	52 roofed	xcomp
54	in	in	ADP	_	57 Land	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 Land	det
56	Frozen	Frozen	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 Land	compound
57	Land	Land	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 dwelling	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 discourse	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 discourse	cc
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 rest	det
61	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 discourse	nsubj
62	of	of	ADP	_	64 speech	case
63	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	64 speech	nmod:poss
64	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 rest	nmod
65	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	69 discourse	aux
66	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	69 discourse	cop
67	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	69 discourse	det
68	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	69 discourse	amod
69	discourse	discourse	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 spoken	advcl
70	in	in	ADP	_	71 praise	case
71	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 discourse	nmod
72	of	of	ADP	_	74 Maid	case
73	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	74 Maid	det
74	Maid	Maid	PROPN	Number=Sing	71 praise	nmod
75	of	of	ADP	_	76 Beauty	case
76	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	74 Maid	nmod
77	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	would	the master			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the master not said here				of a hoe	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	beat out	past · perfect	master	a hoe not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hoe=Theme
4	have	past	a gold ring				master nsubj; fashioned property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	speak speech: other	past · perfect · passive		ere			master nsubj; dozen words obj	tree rules
6	wander	would	master's mind	dozen words not said here			away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme word=Trajectory
7	roof	participle	master's mind not said here					tree rules
8	dwell	gerund	master's mind not said here		the Frozen Land			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location
9	burn	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	is a	would	the rest of master's speech	a burning discourse	praise of the Maid of Beauty			tree rules
11	mind		master					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
12	speak		master					nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent
13	praise			the Maid of Beauty				nom praise «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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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 15