The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 81
It was not that which the Smith had hoped to see, for the ill-working serving-men had broken the spells that he was weaving.
Who acts: ill working serving men, spells · What happens: not hope, see, work, break, weave · To what, where: vapor, spells · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (ill working serving men, spells), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hoped | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hoped | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 hoped | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 hoped | mark |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 hoped | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Smith | det |
| 7 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hoped | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hoped | aux |
| 9 | hoped | hope | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hoped | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 broken | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 broken | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 men | det |
| 15 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 men | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 ill | punct |
| 17 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 men | amod |
| 18 | serving | serving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 men | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 serving | punct |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 broken | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 broken | aux |
| 22 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 see | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 spells | det |
| 24 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 broken | obj |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 weaving | nsubj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 weaving | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 weaving | aux |
| 28 | weaving | weave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 spells | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hoped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hope | past · perfect · passive | vapor | which nsubj:pass; the Smith nsubj:pass | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | work | gerund | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | break | past · perfect | the ill working serving men | the spells | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spell=Patient | ||||
| 5 | weave | past · progressive | the spells | man nsubj | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: 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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