The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 66
“Nothing can be made from such useless things.
What happens: make · To what, where: Nothing, such useless things
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
| 2 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 things | case |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 things | amod |
| 8 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 things | amod |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | can · passive | Nothing | such useless things | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from thing=Material |
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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