The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 39
His anvil was a block of gray granite; his forge was carefully builded of sand and clay; his bellows was made of the skins of mountain goats sewn together.
Who acts: anvil, Smith · What happens: be, builde, make, sew, bellow · To what, where: block, forge, bellows, mountain goats
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 (anvil, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 anvil | nmod:poss |
| 2 | anvil | anvil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 block | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 block | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 block | det |
| 5 | block | block | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 granite | case |
| 7 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 granite | amod |
| 8 | granite | granite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 block | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 builded | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 forge | nmod:poss |
| 11 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 builded | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 builded | aux:pass |
| 13 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 14 builded | advmod |
| 14 | builded | builde | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 block | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 sand | case |
| 16 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 builded | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 clay | cc |
| 18 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sand | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 made | punct |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 bellows | nmod:poss |
| 21 | bellows | bellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 made | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 made | aux:pass |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 block | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 skins | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 skins | det |
| 26 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 made | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 goats | case |
| 28 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 goats | compound |
| 29 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 skins | nmod |
| 30 | sewn | sew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 goats | acl |
| 31 | together | together | ADV | _ | 30 sewn | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 block | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Smith's anvil | a block | of gray granite | tree rules | |||
| 2 | builde | past · passive | Smith's forge | of sand and clay; carefully property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | past · passive | Smith's bellows | of the skins of mountain goats | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 4 | sew | participle | mountain goats not said here | together property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | bellow | Smith | nom bellow «communication intransitive»: 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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