The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 54
Safely locked in a stony cavern, still it grinds wealth and food and clothing without end.
Who acts: lid · What happens: lock, grind · To what, where: stony cavern, wealth
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lid), 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 | Safely | safely | ADV | _ | 2 locked | advmod |
| 2 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 cavern | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cavern | det |
| 5 | stony | stony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cavern | amod |
| 6 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 locked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grinds | punct |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 grinds | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 grinds | nsubj |
| 10 | grinds | grind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 locked | conj |
| 11 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grinds | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 food | cc |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wealth | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 clothing | cc |
| 15 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wealth | conj |
| 16 | without | without | ADP | _ | 17 end | case |
| 17 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grinds | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 locked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | participle | a stony cavern | safely property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grind | present | lid | wealth and food and clothing | without end; still | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument wealth=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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