The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 79
One whole day he swung his hammer; two whole days he plied his hatchet; three days and more he worked to join the many pieces together.
Who acts: man, two whole days · What happens: swing, ply, work, join · To what, where: hammer, hatchet, many pieces
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of Beauty. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, two whole days), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swung | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 swung | nsubj |
| 5 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hammer | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swung | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 plied | punct |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 days | nummod |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 days | amod |
| 11 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 plied | nsubj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 plied | nsubj |
| 13 | plied | ply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 swung | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hatchet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 plied | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 days | punct |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 days | nummod |
| 18 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 plied | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 more | cc |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 days | conj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 worked | nsubj |
| 22 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 plied | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 join | mark |
| 24 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 worked | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 pieces | det |
| 26 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 pieces | amod |
| 27 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 join | obj |
| 28 | together | together | ADV | _ | 24 join | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing | past | man | man's hammer | day | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme | |||
| 2 | ply | past | two whole days | man's hatchet | day | man nsubj | tree rules | ||
| 3 | work | past | man | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | join | to-infinitive | man not said here | the many pieces | together property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient |
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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