The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 63
Then from the forest he cut and brought together many logs of willow and white maple and mountain ash, and of these he made charcoal for his smithy.
Who acts: Beauty · What happens: cut, bring together, make · To what, where: forest, many logs, charcoal
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beauty), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 cut | advmod |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 forest | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 forest | det |
| 4 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cut | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cut | nsubj |
| 6 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 brought | cc |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cut | conj |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 brought | advmod |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 logs | amod |
| 11 | logs | log | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 brought | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 willow | case |
| 13 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 logs | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 maple | cc |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 maple | amod |
| 16 | maple | maple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 willow | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ash | cc |
| 18 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ash | compound |
| 19 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 willow | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 made | cc |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 these | case |
| 23 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 25 made | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 made | nsubj |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cut | conj |
| 26 | charcoal | charcoal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 smithy | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 smithy | nmod:poss |
| 29 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | past | Beauty | the forest | then | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from forest=Location | |||
| 2 | bring together | past | Beauty not said here | many logs of willow and white maple and mountain ash | together property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent log=Theme | |||
| 3 | make | past | Beauty | charcoal | of these; for Beauty's smithy | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent charcoal=Product for smithy=Asset |
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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