The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 77
But the ropes with which the heroes had bound it confused her—she could not break them.
Who acts: Sampo, Pohyola · What happens: bind, confuse, not break · To what, where: ropes, Pohyola
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 (Sampo, Pohyola), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 bound | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ropes | det |
| 3 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bound | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 heroes | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 heroes | nsubj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 heroes | det |
| 7 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ropes | nmod |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bound | aux |
| 9 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 confused | nsubj |
| 11 | confused | confuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bound | ccomp |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 confused | obj |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 break | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 break | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 break | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 break | advmod |
| 17 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 bound | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 break | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bind | past · perfect · passive | the ropes with the heroes the ropes with the heroes the ropes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | confuse | past | Sampo | Pohyola | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not break | could | Pohyola | ropes = rope | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient |
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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