The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 62
“You are a great smith and skilled in working with all sorts of metals.
Who acts: You · What happens: be, work, sort · To what, where: great smith, metals
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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 | _ | 6 smith | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 smith | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 smith | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 smith | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 smith | amod |
| 6 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 skilled | cc |
| 8 | skilled | skilled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 smith | conj |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 working | mark |
| 10 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 skilled | advcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 sorts | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 sorts | det |
| 13 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 working | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 metals | case |
| 15 | metals | metal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sorts | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 smith | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | You | a great smith | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | You not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | work in a quote | gerund | You not said here | with all sorts of metals | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sort=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | sort in a quote | metals | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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