The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 80
After this he wrought for himself a coat of mail, and gauntlets of iron, and strong gloves which no tooth nor sting could pierce.
Who acts: tooth · What happens: pierce · To what, where: strong gloves
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 (tooth), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 wrought | mark |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 wrought | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wrought | nsubj |
| 4 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 himself | case |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 wrought | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 coat | det |
| 8 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrought | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 mail | case |
| 10 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 coat | nmod | ||
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gauntlets | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gauntlets | cc |
| 13 | gauntlets | gauntlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wrought | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 iron | case |
| 15 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gauntlets | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gloves | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gloves | cc |
| 18 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 gloves | amod |
| 19 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gauntlets | conj |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 pierce | obj |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 tooth | det |
| 22 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pierce | nsubj |
| 23 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 24 sting | cc |
| 24 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tooth | conj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 pierce | aux |
| 26 | pierce | pierce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 gloves | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pierce | could | no tooth nor sting | strong gloves | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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