The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 90
A pot was filled with the herbs and twigs and set to boiling on the coals.
What happens: fill, set · To what, where: pot, coals
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pot | det |
| 2 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 filled | aux:pass |
| 4 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 herbs | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 herbs | det |
| 7 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 filled | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 twigs | cc |
| 9 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 herbs | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 filled | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 boiling | case |
| 13 | boiling | boiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 coals | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 coals | det |
| 16 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 set | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | a pot | with the herbs and twigs | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with herb=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | set | infinitive | the coals | to boiling | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on coal=Destination |
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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