The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 53
You may hear the Sampo whirring, you may hear its pictured cover grinding in the cavern where I placed it—but it whirs for me alone, it grinds out wealth and plenty for my people and for no other.”
Who acts: You, pictured cover, I, cover · What happens: hear, picture, grind, place, whir, grind out · To what, where: Sampo whirring, pictured cover, cavern, cover, wealth
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 (You, pictured cover, I, cover), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | aux |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 whirring | det |
| 5 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 whirring | compound |
| 6 | whirring | whirring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hear | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hear | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 hear | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 hear | aux |
| 10 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hear | conj |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 cover | nmod:poss |
| 12 | pictured | picture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 cover | amod |
| 13 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hear | obj |
| 14 | grinding | grind | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 cover | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 cavern | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cavern | det |
| 17 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grinding | obl |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 placed | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 placed | nsubj |
| 20 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 cavern | acl:relcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 placed | obj |
| 22 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 whirs | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 whirs | cc |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 whirs | nsubj |
| 25 | whirs | whir | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | parataxis |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 whirs | obl |
| 28 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 25 whirs | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 grinds | punct |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 grinds | nsubj |
| 31 | grinds | grind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 whirs | conj |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 grinds | compound:prt |
| 33 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 grinds | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 plenty | cc |
| 35 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wealth | conj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 people | case |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 people | nmod:poss |
| 38 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 grinds | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 other | cc |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 other | case |
| 41 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 42 other | det |
| 42 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 grinds | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | may | You | the Sampo whirring | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whirring=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hear | may | you | whirring's pictured cover | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cover=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | picture | participle | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | grind | gerund | whirring's pictured cover not said here | the cavern | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | place | past | I | cover | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | whir | present | cover | for me; alone property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | grind out | present | cover | wealth and plenty | for my people | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wealth=Product for people=Beneficiary |
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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