The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 91
Then he threw in more gold, and with each handful of the yellow metal he muttered a new rune of magic words and magic import.
Who acts: form · What happens: throw, mutter · To what, where: more gold, new rune
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 threw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 gold | case |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 gold | amod |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 muttered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 muttered | cc |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 handful | case |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 handful | det |
| 11 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 muttered | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 metal | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 metal | det |
| 14 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 metal | amod |
| 15 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 handful | nmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 muttered | nsubj |
| 17 | muttered | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 rune | det |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 rune | amod |
| 20 | rune | rune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 muttered | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 words | case |
| 22 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 words | amod |
| 23 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 rune | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 import | cc |
| 25 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 import | amod |
| 26 | import | import | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 words | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | form | more gold | then | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in gold=Destination | |||
| 2 | mutter speech: assert | past | form | a new rune of magic words and magic import | with each handful of the yellow metal | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rune=Topic |
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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