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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 95

Then for nine nights he caught the moonbeams and mingled them with the mixture; and for nine days he entrapped the sunlight and added it to the magic ointment.

Who acts: youth · What happens: catch, mingle, entrap, add · To what, where: moonbeams, sunlight

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 (youth), 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

advmodcasenummodoblnsubjdetobjccconjobjcasedetoblpunctcccasenummodoblnsubjconjdetobjccconjobjcasedetamodoblpunctrootThenADVforADPnineNUMnightsNOUNhePRONcaughtVERBtheDETmoonbeamsNOUNandCCONJmingledVERBthemPRONwithADPtheDETmixtureNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJforADPnineNUMdaysNOUNhePRONentrappedVERBtheDETsunlightNOUNandCCONJaddedVERBitPRONtoADPtheDETmagicADJointmentNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem6 caughtadvmod
2forforADP_4 nightscase
3ninenineNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card4 nightsnummod
4nightsnightNOUNNumber=Plur6 caughtobl
5hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 caughtnsubj
6caughtcatchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 moonbeamsdet
8moonbeamsmoonbeamNOUNNumber=Plur6 caughtobj
9andandCCONJ_10 mingledcc
10mingledmingleVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 caughtconj
11themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs10 mingledobj
12withwithADP_14 mixturecase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 mixturedet
14mixturemixtureNOUNNumber=Sing10 mingledobl
15;;PUNCT_21 entrappedpunct
16andandCCONJ_21 entrappedcc
17forforADP_19 dayscase
18ninenineNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card19 daysnummod
19daysdayNOUNNumber=Plur21 entrappedobl
20hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 entrappednsubj
21entrappedentrapVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 caughtconj
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 sunlightdet
23sunlightsunlightNOUNNumber=Sing21 entrappedobj
24andandCCONJ_25 addedcc
25addedaddVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 entrappedconj
26ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 addedobj
27totoADP_30 ointmentcase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 ointmentdet
29magicmagicADJDegree=Pos30 ointmentamod
30ointmentointmentNOUNNumber=Sing25 addedobl
31..PUNCT_6 caughtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1catchpastyouththe moonbeamsthen; nightvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moonbeam=Theme
2minglepastyouth not said heremoonbeams = moonbeamwith the mixturevn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient with mixture=Co-Patient
3entrappastyouththe sunlightdayvn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunlight=Patient
4add speech: assertpastyouth not said heresunlightto the magic ointmentvn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to ointment=Co-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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