The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 42
They bound it securely so that it could not be moved.
Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: bind, not move · To what, where: leaf
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 (Ilmarinen), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bound | nsubj |
| 2 | bound | bind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bound | obj |
| 4 | securely | securely | ADV | _ | 2 bound | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 11 moved | mark |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 so | fixed |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 moved | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 moved | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 moved | advmod |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 moved | aux:pass |
| 11 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 bound | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bind | past | Ilmarinen | leaf | securely property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | not move | could · passive | leaf | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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