The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 18

But at the entrance to the cavern the great doors were shut—nine huge and heavy doors, and each door was made secure by nine locks of hardest metal.

Who acts: great doors, nine locks · What happens: be, make · To what, where: entrance, door

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great doors, nine locks), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 shut	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 entrance	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 entrance	det
4	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shut	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 cavern	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cavern	det
7	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 entrance	nmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 doors	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 doors	amod
10	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 shut	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 shut	cop
12	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 nine	punct
14	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 doors	nummod
15	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 doors	amod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 heavy	cc
17	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 huge	conj
18	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 shut	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 made	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 made	cc
21	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	22 door	det
22	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 made	aux:pass
24	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 shut	conj
25	secure	secure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 made	xcomp
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 locks	case
27	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 locks	nummod
28	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 made	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 metal	case
30	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 metal	amod
31	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 locks	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 shut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the great doors			the entrance to the cavern		nine huge doors obl; shut property	tree rules
2	make	past · passive	nine locks of hardest metal	each door				secure property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product

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 Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 18

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 18