The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 17
It was the sound made by the magic mill, grinding, grinding forever in the cave beneath the hill of copper.
Who acts: head · What happens: be, make, grind · To what, where: sound, cave
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sound | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sound | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sound | det |
| 4 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sound | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 mill | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mill | det |
| 8 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mill | compound |
| 9 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 grinding | punct |
| 11 | grinding | grind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 made | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grinding | punct |
| 13 | grinding | grind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 grinding | conj |
| 14 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 13 grinding | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 cave | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cave | det |
| 17 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grinding | obl |
| 18 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 20 hill | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hill | det |
| 20 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grinding | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 copper | case |
| 22 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hill | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | head | the sound | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | the sound not said here | by the magic mill | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | grind | gerund | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | grind | gerund | the cave | beneath the hill of copper; forever property | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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