The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 104
Then, with the greatest care, he took a small portion of the ointment upon his finger; he smeared it gently upon the trunk and branches of the wounded pine; he sang softly a little song of magic:
Who acts: man, magic · What happens: take, smear, sing · To what, where: small portion, portion, trunk, little song
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Graybeard and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, 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 | 9 took | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 care | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 care | det |
| 5 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 care | amod |
| 6 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 care | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 portion | det |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 portion | amod |
| 12 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 ointment | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ointment | det |
| 15 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 portion | nmod |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 finger | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 finger | nmod:poss |
| 18 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ointment | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 smeared | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 smeared | nsubj |
| 21 | smeared | smear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 smeared | obj |
| 23 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 21 smeared | advmod |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 trunk | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 trunk | det |
| 26 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 smeared | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 branches | cc |
| 28 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 trunk | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 pine | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 pine | det |
| 31 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 pine | amod |
| 32 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 branches | nmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 sang | punct |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 sang | nsubj |
| 35 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 36 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 35 sang | advmod |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 song | det |
| 38 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 song | amod |
| 39 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sang | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 magic | case |
| 41 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 song | nmod |
| 42 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | man | a small portion of the ointment upon man's finger | then | with the greatest care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portion=Theme | ||
| 2 | smear | past | man | portion | the trunk and branches of the wounded pine | gently property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon trunk=Destination | ||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | man | a little song of magic | softly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | |||
| 4 | sing | magic | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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