The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 27
The wheels of the mill were whirring softly, its levers were moving in their places; it was grinding out riches for Pohyola.
Who acts: wheels, levers, cave · What happens: whir, move, grind out · To what, where: places, riches
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 (wheels, levers, cave), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wheels | det |
| 2 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 whirring | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 mill | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mill | det |
| 5 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wheels | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 whirring | aux |
| 7 | whirring | whir | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 7 whirring | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 moving | punct |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 levers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | levers | lever | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 moving | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 moving | aux |
| 13 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 whirring | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 places | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 places | nmod:poss |
| 16 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 moving | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 grinding | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 grinding | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 grinding | aux |
| 20 | grinding | grind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 moving | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 grinding | compound:prt |
| 22 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 grinding | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 Pohyola | case |
| 24 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 grinding | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 whirring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whir | past · progressive | the wheels of the mill | softly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | move | past · progressive | cave's levers | mill's places | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in place=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | grind out | past · progressive | cave | riches | for Pohyola | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent rich=Product for pohyola=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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