The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 96
But its temper was good, for it had been forged by a master smith in the days when men did honest work.
Who acts: temper, master smith, men, knife · What happens: be, forge, do, temper · To what, where: knife, honest 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 (temper, master smith, men, knife), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 good | cc |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 temper | nmod:poss |
| 3 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 good | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | cop |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 forged | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 forged | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 forged | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 forged | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 forged | aux:pass |
| 11 | forged | forge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 good | parataxis |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 smith | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 smith | det |
| 14 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 smith | compound |
| 15 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 forged | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 days | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 days | det |
| 18 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 smith | nmod |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 did | advmod |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 did | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 forged | advcl |
| 22 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 work | amod |
| 23 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 did | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | knife's temper | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forge | past · perfect · passive | a master smith in the days | knife | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | do | past | men | honest work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | temper | knife | nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=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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