The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 67
The skilfulest smith can never fashion fish-bones into anything of value.”
Who acts: skilfulest smith · What happens: not fashion · To what, where: fish bones, anything
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: who acts (skilfulest smith), 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 smith | det |
| 2 | skilfulest | skilful | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 smith | amod |
| 3 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fashion | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 fashion | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 fashion | advmod |
| 6 | fashion | fashion | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bones | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 fish | punct |
| 9 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fashion | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 anything | case |
| 11 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 fashion | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 value | case |
| 13 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 anything | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fashion | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fashion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fashion | can | the skilfulest smith | fish bones | anything of value | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent bone=Material into anything=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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