The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 77
With short, quick strokes he hammered it; he turned it and twisted it; he shaped it according to his will.
Who acts: smoke · What happens: hammer, turn, twist, shape, accord · To what, where: mass
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 (smoke), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 5 strokes | case |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 strokes | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 short | punct |
| 4 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 strokes | amod |
| 5 | strokes | stroke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hammered | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hammered | nsubj |
| 7 | hammered | hammer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hammered | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hammered | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 turned | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 twisted | cc |
| 14 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 turned | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 twisted | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 shaped | 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 | 7 hammered | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 shaped | obj |
| 20 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 will | case |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 according | fixed |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 will | nmod:poss |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 shaped | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hammered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hammer | past | smoke | mass | with short quick strokes | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with stroke=Instrument | |||
| 2 | turn | past | smoke | mass | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | twist | past | smoke not said here | mass | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shape | past | smoke | mass | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | ||||
| 5 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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