The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 68

“It may be so,” said Wainamoinen thoughtfully, “and yet, perhaps I, who am not a smith, may make something from them that will give joy to men and women.”

Who acts: Smith, Wainamoinen · What happens: be, say, not be, make, give · To what, where: smith, something, joy, men · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Smith, Wainamoinen), 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	_	8 said	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 so	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 so	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 so	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 said	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 so	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 so	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Wainamoinen	Wainamoinen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	thoughtfully	thoughtfully	ADV	_	8 said	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 make	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 make	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 I	cc
14	yet	yet	ADV	_	17 I	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 I	punct
16	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	17 I	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 make	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 smith	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 smith	nsubj
20	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 smith	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 smith	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 smith	det
23	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 I	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 smith	punct
25	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 make	aux
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	parataxis
27	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 make	obj
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 something	nmod
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 give	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 give	aux
32	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 something	acl:relcl
33	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 give	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 men	case
35	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 give	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 women	cc
37	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 men	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 make	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	may	Smith			so property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Wainamoinen			thoughtfully property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not is a in a quote	present		a smith		who nsubj	tree rules
4	make in a quote	may	Wainamoinen	something		from bones = bone	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent something=Product from they=Material
5	give in a quote	future		joy	men and women		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent joy=Theme to man=Recipient

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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The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 68