The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 38
On a green hillock, where the south wind blew, he built him a smithy, and in it he placed the tools of his craft.
Who acts: south wind, wind, Smith · What happens: blow, build, place, craft · To what, where: smithy, Smith, green hillock, tools
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 (south wind, wind, Smith), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 hillock | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hillock | det |
| 3 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hillock | amod |
| 4 | hillock | hillock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 built | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 blew | punct |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 blew | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wind | det |
| 8 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wind | compound |
| 9 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blew | nsubj |
| 10 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hillock | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hillock | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 built | nsubj |
| 13 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 built | obj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 smithy | det |
| 16 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 built | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 placed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 placed | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 placed | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 placed | nsubj |
| 22 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 built | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tools | det |
| 24 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 placed | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 craft | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 craft | nmod:poss |
| 27 | craft | craft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tools | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | the south wind | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | build | past | wind | a smithy | Smith | a green hillock | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary smithy=Product | ||
| 3 | place | past | Smith | the tools of Smith's craft | smithy | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tool=Theme in it=Destination | |||
| 4 | craft | Smith | nom craft «act transitive»: poss=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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