The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 12
His thoughts were centred on the trinket he was forging and shaping, but his song was of a maiden in a far-away land.
Who acts: pause, song · What happens: centre, forge, shape, be, think, sing · To what, where: thoughts, trinket, land
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pause, song), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 2 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 centred | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 centred | aux:pass |
| 4 | centred | centre | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 trinket | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trinket | det |
| 7 | trinket | trinket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 centred | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 forging | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 forging | aux |
| 10 | forging | forge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 trinket | acl:relcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shaping | cc |
| 12 | shaping | shape | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 forging | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 maiden | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 maiden | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 song | nmod:poss |
| 16 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 maiden | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 maiden | cop |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 maiden | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 maiden | det |
| 20 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 centred | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 land | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 land | det |
| 23 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 away | advmod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 far | punct |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 land | advmod |
| 26 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 maiden | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 centred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | centre | past · passive | pause's thoughts | the trinket | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forge | past · progressive | pause | the trinket not said here | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trinket=Product | ||||
| 3 | shape | gerund | pause not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | is | past | pause's song | a land | of a maiden | tree rules | |||
| 5 | think | pause | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | sing | pause | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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