The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 91
Meanwhile the master Smith was toiling steadily at his forge, making the ornaments which he had promised to give to his sister.
Who acts: master · What happens: toil, make, promise, give · To what, where: forge, ornaments, sister
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 (master), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 6 toiling | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 master | det |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 toiling | nsubj |
| 4 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 toiling | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 toiling | aux |
| 6 | toiling | toil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | steadily | steadily | ADV | _ | 6 toiling | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 forge | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 forge | nmod:poss |
| 10 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 toiling | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 making | punct |
| 12 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 toiling | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ornaments | det |
| 14 | ornaments | ornament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 making | obj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 promised | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 promised | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 promised | aux |
| 18 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 ornaments | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 give | mark |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 promised | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 sister | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 sister | nmod:poss |
| 23 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 give | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 toiling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toil | past · progressive | the master | Smith's forge | Smith nsubj; meanwhile, steadily property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at forge=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | make | gerund | the master not said here | the ornaments | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ornament=Product | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect · passive | the ornaments | master nsubj | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | Smith's sister | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient |
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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