The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 82
Lastly, in its place within the furnace, he hung the magic caldron from which he had once drawn the wonderful Sampo.
Who acts: smoke · What happens: hang, draw · To what, where: magic caldron, smoke
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 | Lastly | lastly | ADV | _ | 11 hung | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lastly | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 place | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 place | nmod:poss |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lastly | obl |
| 6 | within | within | ADP | _ | 8 furnace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 furnace | det |
| 8 | furnace | furnace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 place | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lastly | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hung | nsubj |
| 11 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 caldron | det |
| 13 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 caldron | amod |
| 14 | caldron | caldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hung | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 drawn | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 drawn | aux |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 drawn | advmod |
| 20 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 caldron | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Sampo | det |
| 22 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Sampo | amod |
| 23 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 drawn | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | smoke | the magic caldron | lastly property | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caldron=Patient | |||
| 2 | draw | past · perfect · passive | smoke | the magic caldron | the wonderful Sampo obj; once property | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary sampo=Result |
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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