The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 40
With a hasty effort he drew his enchanted sword, the sword, Faultless, the last piece of workmanship wrought in Ilmarinen’s smithy.
Who acts: stroke · What happens: draw, enchant · To what, where: enchanted sword
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 (stroke), 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 | _ | 4 effort | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 effort | det |
| 3 | hasty | hasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 effort | amod |
| 4 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drew | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 drew | nsubj |
| 6 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sword | nmod:poss |
| 8 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sword | amod |
| 9 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drew | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sword | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sword | det |
| 12 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sword | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Faultless | punct |
| 14 | Faultless | Faultless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sword | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 piece | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 piece | det |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 piece | amod |
| 18 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sword | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 workmanship | case |
| 20 | workmanship | workmanship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 piece | nmod |
| 21 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 piece | amod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 smithy | case |
| 23 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 smithy | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 Ilmarinen | case |
| 25 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wrought | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | stroke | stroke's enchanted sword and the sword and Faultless and the last piece of workmanship | with a hasty effort | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||
| 2 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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