The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 6

Only three things were lacking to make it ready for the launching—three magic strokes to drive the three bolts that would fasten the three planks which still hung loose at the bottom of the hull.

Who acts: three things, three bolts · What happens: lack, make, drive, fasten, hang · To what, where: boat, three bolts, three planks, bottom

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 (three things, three bolts), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	2 three	advmod
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 things	nummod
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lacking	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lacking	aux
5	lacking	lack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lacking	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 make	obj
9	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 make	xcomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 launching	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 launching	det
12	launching	launching	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ready	obl
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	16 strokes	punct
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 strokes	nummod
15	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 strokes	amod
16	strokes	stroke	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 launching	appos
17	to	to	PART	_	18 drive	mark
18	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 strokes	acl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bolts	det
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 bolts	nummod
21	bolts	bolt	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 drive	obj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 fasten	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 fasten	aux
24	fasten	fasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 bolts	acl:relcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 planks	det
26	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 planks	nummod
27	planks	plank	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fasten	obj
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 hung	obj
29	still	still	ADV	_	30 hung	advmod
30	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 planks	acl:relcl
31	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hung	xcomp
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 bottom	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bottom	det
34	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hung	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 hull	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 hull	det
37	hull	hull	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bottom	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lacking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lack	past · progressive	three things					tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive	three things not said here	boat			ready property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
3	drive	to-infinitive	three things not said here	the three bolts				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme bolt=Trajectory
4	fasten	would	the three bolts	the three planks				vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plank=Patient
5	hang	past		the three planks	the bottom of the hull	still	loose property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme at bottom=Destination

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 6

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 6