The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 74
Then with care he enclosed the tinder within the pitch and cast it over his left shoulder far out into the sea.
Who acts: magic · What happens: enclose, cast over · To what, where: tinder
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 enclosed | advmod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 care | case |
| 3 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 enclosed | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 enclosed | nsubj |
| 5 | enclosed | enclose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tinder | det |
| 7 | tinder | tinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 enclosed | obj |
| 8 | within | within | ADP | _ | 10 pitch | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pitch | det |
| 10 | pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 enclosed | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cast | cc |
| 12 | cast | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 enclosed | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cast | obj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 cast | compound:prt |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 16 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 shoulder | amod |
| 17 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cast | obl |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 out | advmod |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 cast | advmod |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 sea | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sea | det |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 out | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 enclosed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enclose | past | magic | the tinder | then | with care; within the pitch | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tinder=Co-Theme | ||
| 2 | cast over | infinitive | magic not said here | tinder | magic's left shoulder obl; out property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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