The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 88
She mixed this with milk and ashes, and thus made a magic soap that was pure and white and cleansing.
Who acts: Anniki, magic soap · What happens: mix, make, be, cleanse · To what, where: this, magic soap
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 (Anniki, magic soap), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 mixed | nsubj |
| 2 | mixed | mix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 mixed | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 milk | case |
| 5 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mixed | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ashes | cc |
| 7 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 milk | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 10 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 11 made | advmod |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 mixed | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 soap | det |
| 13 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 soap | compound |
| 14 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 pure | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 pure | cop |
| 17 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 soap | acl:relcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 white | cc |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 pure | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cleansing | cc |
| 21 | cleansing | cleanse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 pure | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mix | past | Anniki | this | with milk and ashes | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent this=Patient with milk=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | make | past | Anniki not said here | a magic soap | thus property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soap=Product | |||
| 3 | is | past | a magic soap | pure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | a magic soap not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | cleanse | gerund | a magic soap not said here | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: 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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