The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 83
Into this caldron he threw many strange and potent things: the hoof of a reindeer, the tail of a hare, a bag of wind, a flash of lightning, a shooting star.
Who acts: smoke, lightning · What happens: throw, flash · To what, where: many strange things, caldron
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, lightning), 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 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 3 caldron | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 caldron | det |
| 3 | caldron | caldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 threw | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 threw | nsubj |
| 5 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 things | amod |
| 7 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 things | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 potent | cc |
| 9 | potent | potent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 strange | conj |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 threw | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 hoof | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hoof | det |
| 13 | hoof | hoof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 things | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 reindeer | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 reindeer | det |
| 16 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hoof | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tail | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tail | det |
| 19 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hoof | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 hare | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 hare | det |
| 22 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tail | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bag | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bag | det |
| 25 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hoof | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 wind | case |
| 27 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bag | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 flash | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 flash | det |
| 30 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hoof | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 lightning | case |
| 32 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 flash | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 star | punct |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 star | det |
| 35 | shooting | shooting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 star | compound |
| 36 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hoof | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | smoke | many strange things | into this caldron result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer thing=Theme into caldron=Result | |||
| 2 | flash | lightning | nom flash «event intransitive»: of=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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