The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 69
On the fifth day he toiled over the upturned edges of mighty swords; but his gloves of copper turned them aside that they did him no harm.
Who acts: planter, gloves · What happens: toil, upturn, turn, do · To what, where: upturned edges, swords, planter
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 (planter, gloves), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 toiled | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 toiled | nsubj |
| 6 | toiled | toil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 edges | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 edges | det |
| 9 | upturned | upturn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 edges | amod |
| 10 | edges | edge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 toiled | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 swords | case |
| 12 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 swords | amod |
| 13 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 edges | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 turned | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 gloves | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 gloves | nmod:poss |
| 17 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 turned | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 copper | case |
| 19 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gloves | nmod |
| 20 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 toiled | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 turned | obj |
| 22 | aside | aside | ADP | _ | 25 did | mark |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 did | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 did | nsubj |
| 25 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 turned | advcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 did | obj |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 harm | det |
| 28 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 did | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 toiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toil | past | planter | the upturned edges of mighty swords | day | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over edge=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | upturn | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | turn | past | planter's gloves of copper | swords = sword | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme they=Result | ||||
| 4 | do | past | gloves = glove | planter | no harm obj | 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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