The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 25
The bread must be baked, and this pile of wool must be spun, and from its yarn six new blankets must be woven this very day.
Who acts: pile · What happens: bake, spin, weave, yarn · To what, where: bread, pile, yarn
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pile), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bread | det |
| 2 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 baked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 baked | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 baked | aux:pass |
| 5 | baked | bake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spun | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 spun | cc |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 pile | det |
| 9 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spun | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 wool | case |
| 11 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pile | nmod |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 spun | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 spun | aux:pass |
| 14 | spun | spin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 baked | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 woven | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 woven | cc |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 yarn | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 yarn | nmod:poss |
| 19 | yarn | yarn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 woven | obl |
| 20 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 blankets | nummod |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 blankets | amod |
| 22 | blankets | blanket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 yarn | nmod |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 woven | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 woven | aux:pass |
| 25 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 baked | conj |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 day | det |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 day | advmod |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 woven | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 baked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bake | must · passive | the bread | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | spin | must · passive | this pile of wool | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | weave | must · passive | pile's yarn six new blankets | day | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: from yarn=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | yarn | pile | nom yarn «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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