The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 103
With much labor and care he picked them up, laying them one by one for safe keeping in the folds of his long cloak.
Who acts: treasure · What happens: pick up, lay, keep · To what, where: labor, folds
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (treasure), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 labor | case |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 labor | amod |
| 3 | labor | labor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 picked | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 care | cc |
| 5 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 labor | conj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 picked | nsubj |
| 7 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 picked | obj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 picked | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 laying | punct |
| 11 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 picked | advcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 laying | obj |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 laying | obl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 one | nmod |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 keeping | mark |
| 17 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 keeping | amod |
| 18 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 laying | advcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 folds | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 folds | det |
| 21 | folds | fold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 keeping | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 cloak | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 24 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cloak | amod |
| 25 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 folds | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | treasure | labor | with much labor and care | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | |||
| 2 | lay | gerund | treasure not said here | labor | one by one obl | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result | |||
| 3 | keep | gerund | treasure not said here | the folds of treasure's long cloak | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in fold=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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