The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 3
Ilmarinen toiled daily in his smithy, hammering out chains and hoes and axes, and shaping things of beauty and of use for his kinsfolk and neighbors in Wainola.
Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: toil, hammer out, shape · To what, where: smithy, chains, things, Wainola
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 (Ilmarinen), 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 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 toiled | nsubj |
| 2 | toiled | toil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 2 toiled | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 smithy | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 smithy | nmod:poss |
| 6 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 toiled | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hammering | punct |
| 8 | hammering | hammer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 toiled | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 hammering | compound:prt |
| 10 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hammering | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hoes | cc |
| 12 | hoes | hoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 chains | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 axes | cc |
| 14 | axes | ax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 chains | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shaping | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 shaping | cc |
| 17 | shaping | shape | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 toiled | advcl |
| 18 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 shaping | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 beauty | case |
| 20 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 things | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 use | cc |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 use | case |
| 23 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 beauty | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 kinsfolk | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 kinsfolk | nmod:poss |
| 26 | kinsfolk | kinsfolk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shaping | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 neighbors | cc |
| 28 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 kinsfolk | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 Wainola | case |
| 30 | Wainola | Wainola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 shaping | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 toiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toil | past | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen's smithy | daily property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in smithy=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | hammer out | gerund | Ilmarinen not said here | chains and hoes and axes | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Patient | ||||
| 3 | shape | gerund | Ilmarinen not said here | things of beauty and use | Wainola | for Ilmarinen's kinsfolk and neighbors | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent thing=Product for kinsfolk=Asset |
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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