The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 130
Can you hammer into shape a becoming lid for it—a lid of rainbow colors?”
Who acts: you · What happens: hammer · To what, where: becoming lid, shape
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 (you), 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 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hammer | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 hammer | nsubj |
| 3 | hammer | hammer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 shape | case |
| 5 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hammer | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lid | det |
| 7 | becoming | becoming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lid | compound |
| 8 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hammer | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hammer | obl |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 lid | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lid | det |
| 13 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hammer | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 colors | case |
| 15 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 colors | compound |
| 16 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lid | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 hammer | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hammer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hammer | can | you | a becoming lid | shape | for lid; a lid of rainbow colors obl | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.product PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent lid=Material into shape=Product for it=Beneficiary |
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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