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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 70

Of a piece of cedar he made the framework; of the pike’s jawbone he made the bridge; of the pike’s sharp teeth he made the pegs to hold the harp strings.

Who acts: Wainamoinen, pegs · What happens: make, hold · To what, where: framework, bridge, pegs, harp strings

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, pegs), 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

casedetoblcasenmodnsubjdetobjpunctcasedetnmod:posscaseoblnsubjparataxisdetobjpunctcasedetnmod:posscaseamodoblnsubjconjdetobjmarkxcompdetcompoundobjpunctrootOfADPaDETpieceNOUNofADPcedarNOUNhePRONmadeVERBtheDETframeworkNOUN;PUNCTofADPtheDETpikeNOUN’sPARTjawboneNOUNhePRONmadeVERBtheDETbridgeNOUN;PUNCTofADPtheDETpikeNOUN’sPARTsharpADJteethNOUNhePRONmadeVERBtheDETpegsNOUNtoPARTholdVERBtheDETharpNOUNstringsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OfofADP_3 piececase
2aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art3 piecedet
3piecepieceNOUNNumber=Sing7 madeobl
4ofofADP_5 cedarcase
5cedarcedarNOUNNumber=Sing3 piecenmod
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 madensubj
7mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 frameworkdet
9frameworkframeworkNOUNNumber=Sing7 madeobj
10;;PUNCT_17 madepunct
11ofofADP_15 jawbonecase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 pikedet
13pikepikeNOUNNumber=Sing15 jawbonenmod:poss
14’s'sPART_13 pikecase
15jawbonejawboneNOUNNumber=Sing17 madeobl
16hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 madensubj
17mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 madeparataxis
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 bridgedet
19bridgebridgeNOUNNumber=Sing17 madeobj
20;;PUNCT_28 madepunct
21ofofADP_26 teethcase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 pikedet
23pikepikeNOUNNumber=Sing26 teethnmod:poss
24’s'sPART_23 pikecase
25sharpsharpADJDegree=Pos26 teethamod
26teethtoothNOUNNumber=Plur28 madeobl
27hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 madensubj
28mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 madeconj
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 pegsdet
30pegspegNOUNNumber=Plur28 madeobj
31totoPART_32 holdmark
32holdholdVERBVerbForm=Inf28 madexcomp
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 stringsdet
34harpharpNOUNNumber=Sing35 stringscompound
35stringsstringNOUNNumber=Plur32 holdobj
36..PUNCT_7 madepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1makepastWainamoinenthe frameworkof a piece of cedarvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent framework=Product
2makepastWainamoinenthe bridgeof the pike's jawbonevn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Product
3makepastWainamoinenthe pegsof the pike's sharp teethtree rules
4holdto-infinitivethe pegs not said herethe harp stringsvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=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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