The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 90
So saying, he thrust the lamb back into the boiling caldron, forcing it down to the very bottom.
Who acts: form · What happens: say, thrust back, boil, force down · To what, where: lamb, boiling caldron, caldron · 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 (form), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 thrust | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thrust | nsubj |
| 5 | thrust | thrust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lamb | det |
| 7 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thrust | obj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 thrust | advmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 caldron | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 caldron | det |
| 11 | boiling | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 caldron | amod |
| 12 | caldron | caldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thrust | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forcing | punct |
| 14 | forcing | force | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 thrust | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 forcing | obj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 forcing | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 bottom | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bottom | det |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 bottom | advmod |
| 20 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forcing | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thrust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | form not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | thrust back | past | form | the lamb | the boiling caldron | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamb=Theme | |||
| 3 | boil | gerund | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | force down | gerund | form not said here | caldron | to the bottom | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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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