The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 75
Tether him to the ring of iron that is set in the polished post of birchwood.
Who acts: you · What happens: tether, set, polish · To what, where: steed, iron, polished post
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wedding Feast. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Tether | tether | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Tether | obj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 ring | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ring | det |
| 5 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tether | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 iron | case |
| 7 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ring | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 set | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 set | aux:pass |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 iron | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 post | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 post | det |
| 13 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 post | amod |
| 14 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 birchwood | case |
| 16 | birchwood | birchwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 post | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tether | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tether | imperative | you not said here | steed | to the ring of iron | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to ring=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | set | present · passive | iron | the polished post of birchwood | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in post=Destination | ||||
| 3 | polish | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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