The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 67
Is it made from the splinters of my spindle and the fragments of my shuttle?”
What happens: make · To what, where: boat, splinters
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: 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux:pass |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 splinters | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 splinters | det |
| 6 | splinters | splinter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 spindle | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 spindle | nmod:poss |
| 9 | spindle | spindle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 splinters | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fragments | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fragments | det |
| 12 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 spindle | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 shuttle | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 shuttle | nmod:poss |
| 15 | shuttle | shuttle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fragments | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | boat | the splinters of my spindle and the fragments of my shuttle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from splinter=Material |
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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