The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 84
With these he made a mixture such as no other wizard had ever compounded, and as he stirred it he repeated the runes, the songs of mystery that he had sung while forging the Sampo.
Who acts: smoke, mystery · What happens: make, compound, stir, repeat, sing, forge · To what, where: mixture, other wizard, runes, Sampo
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, mystery), 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 | _ | 2 these | case |
| 2 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 made | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mixture | det |
| 6 | mixture | mixture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 compounded | mark |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 such | fixed |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 wizard | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wizard | amod |
| 11 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 compounded | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 compounded | aux |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 compounded | advmod |
| 14 | compounded | compound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 mixture | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 repeated | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 repeated | cc |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 stirred | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stirred | nsubj |
| 19 | stirred | stir | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 repeated | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stirred | obj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 repeated | nsubj |
| 22 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 runes | det |
| 24 | runes | rune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 repeated | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 songs | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 songs | det |
| 27 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 runes | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 mystery | case |
| 29 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 songs | nmod |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 sung | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 sung | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 sung | aux |
| 33 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 repeated | advcl |
| 34 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 35 forging | mark |
| 35 | forging | forge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 sung | advcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Sampo | det |
| 37 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 forging | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | smoke | a mixture | with these | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mixture=Product | |||
| 2 | compound | past · perfect · passive | no other wizard | ever | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stir | past | smoke | mixture | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | repeat | past | smoke | the runes and the songs of mystery | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rune=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | past · perfect | smoke | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 6 | forge | gerund | smoke not said here | the Sampo | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sampo=Product | ||||
| 7 | sing | mystery | nom song «communication 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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