The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 71
And the Smith, with many a magic incantation, hammered out a golden ploughshare, he shaped the handles of copper and the beam of shining silver.
Who acts: magic incantation, Smith, beam · What happens: hammer out, shape, shine · To what, where: golden ploughshare, Smith, silver
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 (magic incantation, Smith, beam), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 shaped | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Smith | det |
| 3 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 shaped | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 incantation | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 incantation | case |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 incantation | nsubj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 incantation | det |
| 8 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 incantation | amod |
| 9 | incantation | incantation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Smith | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hammered | punct |
| 11 | hammered | hammer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 incantation | acl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 hammered | compound:prt |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ploughshare | det |
| 14 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ploughshare | amod |
| 15 | ploughshare | ploughshare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hammered | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Smith | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 shaped | nsubj |
| 18 | shaped | shape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 handles | det |
| 20 | handles | handle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 shaped | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 copper | case |
| 22 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 handles | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 beam | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 beam | det |
| 25 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 copper | conj |
| 26 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 27 shining | mark |
| 27 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 beam | acl |
| 28 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 shining | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 shaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hammer out | participle | a magic incantation not said here | a golden ploughshare | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ploughshare=Patient | ||||
| 2 | shape | past | Smith | the Smith | the handles of copper and the beam obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handle=Product | |||
| 3 | shine | gerund | the beam not said here | silver | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent silver=Theme |
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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