The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 58
“It was I that forged the wonderful mill, I, the prince of smiths and wizards,” said Ilmarinen with a far-off look in his eyes.
Who acts: lid, Ilmarinen · What happens: be, forge, say · To what, where: Ilmarinen, wonderful mill · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Ilmarinen), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 forged | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 I | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 I | cop |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 forged | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 forged | nsubj |
| 6 | forged | forge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mill | det |
| 8 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mill | amod |
| 9 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forged | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 I | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 forged | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 prince | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 I | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 smiths | case |
| 16 | smiths | smith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 prince | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wizards | cc |
| 18 | wizards | wizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 smiths | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 forged | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 forged | punct |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 said | nsubj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 look | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 look | det |
| 25 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 off | amod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 far | punct |
| 27 | off | off | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 look | compound |
| 28 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | obl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 eyes | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 31 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 look | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | lid | Ilmarinen | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forge in a quote | past | Ilmarinen | the wonderful mill | that nsubj | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mill=Product | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Ilmarinen | with a off look in Ilmarinen's eyes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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