The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 16
Into the fire the mighty wizard threw first a bar of purest iron, then upon this he scattered a handful of gold, all that remained of the Golden Maiden.
Who acts: mighty wizard, wizard, that · What happens: throw, scatter, remain · To what, where: bar, fire, handful, this
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mighty wizard, wizard, that), 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 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 3 fire | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fire | det |
| 3 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 threw | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wizard | det |
| 5 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wizard | amod |
| 6 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 threw | nsubj |
| 7 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 threw | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bar | det |
| 10 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 threw | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 iron | case |
| 12 | purest | pure | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 iron | amod |
| 13 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bar | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 scattered | punct |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 scattered | advmod |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 this | case |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 scattered | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 scattered | nsubj |
| 19 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 threw | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 handful | det |
| 21 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 scattered | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 gold | case |
| 23 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 handful | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 remained | punct |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 remained | det:predet |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 remained | nsubj |
| 27 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 scattered | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Maiden | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Maiden | det |
| 30 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Maiden | amod |
| 31 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 remained | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | the mighty wizard | a bar of purest iron | into the fire result; first property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer bar=Theme into fire=Result | |||
| 2 | scatter | past | wizard | a handful of gold | this | then | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent handful=Theme upon this=Destination | ||
| 3 | remain | past | that | of the Golden Maiden | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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