The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 91
With one song I laid the keel, with another I framed the gunwales, with a third I fastened the ribs in their places.
Who acts: I · What happens: lay, frame, fasten · To what, where: keel, gunwales, ribs, places
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 song | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 song | nummod |
| 3 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laid | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 laid | nsubj |
| 5 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 keel | det |
| 7 | keel | keel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laid | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 framed | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 another | case |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 framed | obl |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 framed | nsubj |
| 12 | framed | frame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 laid | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gunwales | det |
| 14 | gunwales | gunwale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 framed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fastened | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 third | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 third | det |
| 18 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fastened | obl |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 fastened | nsubj |
| 20 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 framed | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ribs | det |
| 22 | ribs | rib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fastened | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 places | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 places | nmod:poss |
| 25 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fastened | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | I | the keel | with one song | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent keel=Result | |||
| 2 | frame | past | I | the gunwales | with another | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent gunwale=Destination with another=Theme | |||
| 3 | fasten | past | I | the ribs | ribs's places | with a third | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent rib=Patient with third=Co-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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