The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 69
Nine heavy doors shut it in, and nine locks of strongest metal make each door fast and safe.
Who acts: Nine heavy doors, nine locks · What happens: shut in, make · To what, where: mill, door
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 (Nine heavy doors, nine locks), 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 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 doors | nummod |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 doors | amod |
| 3 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shut | nsubj |
| 4 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shut | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 shut | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 make | cc |
| 9 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 locks | nummod |
| 10 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 make | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 metal | case |
| 12 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 metal | amod |
| 13 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 locks | nmod |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shut | parataxis |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 17 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 make | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 safe | cc |
| 19 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fast | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut in | past | Nine heavy doors | mill | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | present | nine locks of strongest metal | each door | fast property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset door=Product |
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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