The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 116
He was not a soft and ductile metal as before, but Iron hardened into tough blue steel.
Who acts: insect, Iron · What happens: not be, harden · To what, where: soft metal, tough blue steel
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (insect, Iron), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 metal | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 metal | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 metal | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 metal | det |
| 5 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 metal | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ductile | cc |
| 7 | ductile | ductile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 soft | conj |
| 8 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 before | case |
| 10 | before | before | ADV | _ | 8 metal | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hardened | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 hardened | cc |
| 13 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 hardened | nsubj |
| 14 | hardened | harden | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 metal | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 steel | case |
| 16 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 steel | amod |
| 17 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 steel | amod |
| 18 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hardened | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 metal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | insect | a soft metal | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | harden | past | Iron | tough blue steel | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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