The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 146
“He is the prince of all smiths, and there is nothing in magic or in smithing that he cannot do.
Who acts: Ilmarinen, prince · What happens: be, smith, not do · To what, where: prince, magic
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 (Ilmarinen, prince), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 prince | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 prince | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 prince | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 magic | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 smiths | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 smiths | det |
| 8 | smiths | smith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 prince | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 is | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 is | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 is | expl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 magic | cop |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 is | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 magic | case |
| 15 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 smithing | cc |
| 17 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 18 smithing | mark |
| 18 | smithing | smith | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 magic | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 do | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 do | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 do | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 do | advmod |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 smithing | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 magic | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Ilmarinen | the prince | of all smiths | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the prince | magic | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | smith in a quote | gerund | the prince not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not do in a quote | can | Ilmarinen | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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