The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 66
Make its beam of silver and its handles of red copper, and strengthen it throughout with spells of magic.
Who acts: you, field · What happens: make, strengthen throughout, beam, spell · To what, where: beam, field, silver, magic
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, field), 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 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 beam | nmod:poss |
| 3 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Make | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 silver | case |
| 5 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beam | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 handles | cc |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 handles | nmod:poss |
| 8 | handles | handle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 beam | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 copper | case |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 copper | amod |
| 11 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 handles | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 strengthen | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 strengthen | cc |
| 14 | strengthen | strengthen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Make | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 strengthen | obj |
| 16 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 14 strengthen | compound:prt |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 spells | case |
| 18 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 strengthen | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 magic | case |
| 20 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spells | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | field's beam of silver and field's handles of red copper | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset beam=Product | ||||
| 2 | strengthen throughout | infinitive | field | with spells of magic | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with spell=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | beam | field | silver | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | |||||
| 4 | spell | magic | nom spell «state 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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