The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 90
“He wants good timber with which to make the beams and the keel and the boards for the hull.
Who acts: dwarf · What happens: want, make · To what, where: good timber, beams
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 (dwarf), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 timber | amod |
| 5 | timber | timber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wants | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 make | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wants | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 beams | det |
| 11 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 make | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 keel | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 keel | det |
| 14 | keel | keel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beams | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 boards | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boards | det |
| 17 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 beams | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 hull | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hull | det |
| 20 | hull | hull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present | dwarf | good timber | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot timber=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | the beams and the keel and the boards | for the hull; which nsubj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent beam=Product for hull=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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