🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 94

Three smooth holes still needed boring, three strong bolts still needed driving, three broad planks still needed fastening—and I lacked the three mystic words with which to do these things.

Who acts: Three smooth holes, three strong bolts, three broad planks, I · What happens: need, drive, fasten, lack, do · To what, where: three mystic words, things

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 (Three smooth holes, three strong bolts, three broad planks, 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

Pragmatics

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.

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