The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 29
“He is the poor young Smith who forged the Sampo for me, and his name is Ilmarinen.
Who acts: stranger, poor young Smith, name · What happens: be, forge, name · To what, where: poor young Smith, Sampo, Ilmarinen
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Old Man’s Wooing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, poor young Smith, name), 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 | _ | 9 forged | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Smith | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Smith | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Smith | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Smith | amod |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Smith | amod |
| 7 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 forged | nsubj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 forged | nsubj |
| 9 | forged | forge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sampo | det |
| 11 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 forged | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 forged | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Ilmarinen | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Ilmarinen | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 name | nmod:poss |
| 17 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Ilmarinen | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Ilmarinen | cop |
| 19 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 forged | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 forged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | stranger | the poor young Smith | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forge in a quote | past | the poor young Smith | the Sampo | for no stranger = stranger; who nsubj | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sampo=Product for i=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | stranger's name | Ilmarinen | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | name in a quote | stranger | nom name «communication transitive»: 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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