The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 122
It is the magic mill which grinds out all sorts of treasures and gives wealth and power to its possessor.
Who acts: thing, magic mill · What happens: be, grind out, give, sort · To what, where: magic mill, sorts, wealth, possessor, treasures
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, magic mill), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 mill | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mill | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mill | det |
| 4 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mill | compound |
| 5 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 grinds | nsubj |
| 7 | grinds | grind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mill | acl:relcl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 grinds | compound:prt |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 sorts | det |
| 10 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grinds | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 treasures | case |
| 12 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sorts | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gives | cc |
| 14 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 grinds | conj |
| 15 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gives | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 power | cc |
| 17 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wealth | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 possessor | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 possessor | nmod:poss |
| 20 | possessor | possessor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gives | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | thing | the magic mill | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grind out | present | the magic mill | all sorts of treasures | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give | present | the magic mill not said here | wealth and power | thing's possessor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme to possessor=Recipient | |||
| 4 | sort | treasures | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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