The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 57
Make two shoes of iron for my feet, and a pair of copper gloves for my hands, and a slender spear of strongest metal to be my weapon.
Who acts: you, slender spear · What happens: make, metal, be · To what, where: two shoes, weapon
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, slender spear), 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 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 shoes | nummod |
| 3 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Make | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 iron | case |
| 5 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shoes | nmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 feet | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 feet | nmod:poss |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Make | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pair | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pair | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pair | det |
| 12 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Make | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 gloves | case |
| 14 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gloves | compound |
| 15 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pair | nmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 hands | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hands | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pair | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 metal | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 metal | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 spear | det |
| 22 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 spear | amod |
| 23 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 metal | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 strongest | case |
| 25 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 metal | amod |
| 26 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Make | parataxis |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 weapon | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 weapon | cop |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 weapon | nmod:poss |
| 30 | weapon | weapon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 metal | acl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | two shoes of iron | for my feet; a pair of copper gloves for my hands obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent shoe=Material for foot=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | metal | a slender spear | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | you not said here | my weapon | my nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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