The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 58
The young men hastened to gather sticks on the shore to feed the fire, to make hot coals for the broiling.
What happens: hasten, gather, feed, make, broil · To what, where: young men, sticks, shore, fire, hot coals
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 men | acl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 gather | mark |
| 6 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hastened | xcomp |
| 7 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gather | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 shore | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shore | det |
| 10 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gather | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 feed | mark |
| 12 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 gather | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fire | det |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 make | mark |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 feed | conj |
| 18 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 coals | amod |
| 19 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 make | obj |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 broiling | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 broiling | det |
| 22 | broiling | broil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 make | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 men | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | participle | the young men not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | gather | to-infinitive | sticks | the shore | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feed | to-infinitive | the fire | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | hot coals | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset coal=Product | |||||
| 5 | broil | gerund | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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