The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 73
From its right-hand corner he took a bit of soft pitch, black and pliable, and from its left-hand corner a piece of tinder no larger than a pea.
Who acts: magic · What happens: take · To what, where: bit, hand corner
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Pursuit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magic), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 6 corner | case |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 corner | nmod:poss |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hand | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 corner | compound |
| 6 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bit | det |
| 10 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 pitch | case |
| 12 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pitch | amod |
| 13 | pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bit | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 black | punct |
| 15 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 took | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pliable | cc |
| 17 | pliable | pliable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 black | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 larger | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 larger | cc |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 corner | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 corner | nmod:poss |
| 22 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hand | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 left | punct |
| 24 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 corner | compound |
| 25 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 larger | obl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 piece | det |
| 27 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 larger | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 tinder | case |
| 29 | tinder | tinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 piece | nmod |
| 30 | no | no | ADV | _ | 31 larger | advmod |
| 31 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 took | parataxis |
| 32 | than | than | ADP | _ | 34 pea | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 pea | det |
| 34 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 larger | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | magic | a bit of soft pitch | box's hand corner | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bit=Theme from corner=Initial_Location |
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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