The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 69
Thereupon, with his sharp-edged knife he set to work to fashion from the fish-bones a thing to give forth music.
Who acts: Wainamoinen · What happens: edge, set, work, give · To what, where: fish bones, music
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 (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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 10 set | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thereupon | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 knife | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 knife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 knife | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 sharp | punct |
| 7 | edged | edge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 knife | amod |
| 8 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 set | nsubj |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 work | mark |
| 12 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 set | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 fashion | case |
| 14 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 work | obl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 bones | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bones | det |
| 17 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bones | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 fish | punct |
| 19 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 work | obl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 thing | det |
| 21 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bones | appos |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 give | mark |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 thing | acl |
| 24 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 25 music | advmod |
| 25 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 give | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | edge | participle | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | set | past | Wainamoinen | with Wainamoinen's sharp edged knife; thereupon property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | Wainamoinen not said here | the fish bones | to fashion | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive | Wainamoinen not said here | music | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=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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