The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 78
He separated it into parts, and of each part he formed something that would be of use in the great task that was before him.
Who acts: smoke, that · What happens: separate, form, be · To what, where: mass, parts, something, great task
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, that), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 separated | nsubj |
| 2 | separated | separate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 separated | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 parts | case |
| 5 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 separated | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 formed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 formed | cc |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 part | case |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 part | det |
| 10 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 formed | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 formed | nsubj |
| 12 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 separated | conj |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 formed | obj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 use | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 use | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 use | cop |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 use | case |
| 18 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 something | acl:relcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 task | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 task | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 task | amod |
| 22 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 use | nmod |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 him | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 him | cop |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 task | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 separated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | separate | past | smoke | mass | into parts goal | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme into part=Goal | |||
| 2 | form | past | smoke | something | of each part | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location something=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | would | the great task | of use | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | that | before smoke | tree rules |
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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