The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 11
Ilmarinen had bought him for a small price: two old cracked kettles, three broken hooks, four dull-edged scythes, and five toothless rakes.
Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: buy, crack, break, edge · To what, where: slave
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilmarinen), 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 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bought | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bought | aux |
| 3 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bought | iobj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 price | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 price | det |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 price | amod |
| 8 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bought | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 kettles | punct |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 kettles | nummod |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 kettles | amod |
| 12 | cracked | crack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 kettles | amod |
| 13 | kettles | kettle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 price | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hooks | punct |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 hooks | nummod |
| 16 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 hooks | amod |
| 17 | hooks | hook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 kettles | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 scythes | punct |
| 19 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 scythes | nummod |
| 20 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 edged | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 dull | punct |
| 22 | edged | edge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 scythes | amod |
| 23 | scythes | scythe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 kettles | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 rakes | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 rakes | cc |
| 26 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 rakes | nummod |
| 27 | toothless | toothless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 rakes | amod |
| 28 | rakes | rake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 kettles | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past · perfect | Ilmarinen | slave | for a small price two old cracked kettles and three broken hooks and four edged scythes and five toothless rakes | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for price=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | crack | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | edge | participle | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
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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