The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 4
His smithy was full of rare and beautiful things, the work of his own skilful hands.
Who acts: smithy, own skilful hands · What happens: be, work
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 (smithy, own skilful hands), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 smithy | nmod:poss |
| 2 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | cop |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 things | case |
| 6 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 things | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 beautiful | cc |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rare | conj |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 full | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 work | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 work | det |
| 12 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 things | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hands | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hands | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hands | amod |
| 16 | skilful | skilful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hands | amod |
| 17 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 work | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Beauty's smithy | of rare things; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | work | Beauty's own skilful hands | nom work «act 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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