The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 78
Then, in spite of Iron’s piteous cries, he kept on pounding and twisting and turning and shaping the helpless metal until at length it was changed into many forms of use and beauty—rings, chains, axes, knives, cups, and curious tools.
Who acts: Smith, Iron · What happens: keep, pound, twist, turn, shape, change · To what, where: curious tools, spite, helpless metal, metal, length, piteous cries
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 (Smith, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 kept | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 spite | case |
| 4 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kept | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 cries | case |
| 6 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cries | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Iron | case |
| 8 | piteous | piteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cries | amod |
| 9 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spite | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spite | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kept | nsubj |
| 12 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 14 pounding | mark |
| 14 | pounding | pound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 kept | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 twisting | cc |
| 16 | twisting | twist | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 pounding | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 turning | cc |
| 18 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 pounding | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 shaping | cc |
| 20 | shaping | shape | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 pounding | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 metal | det |
| 22 | helpless | helpless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 metal | amod |
| 23 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shaping | obj |
| 24 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 29 changed | mark |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 length | case |
| 26 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 changed | obl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 changed | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 changed | aux:pass |
| 29 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 shaping | advcl |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 forms | case |
| 31 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 forms | amod |
| 32 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 changed | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 use | case |
| 34 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 forms | nmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 beauty | cc |
| 36 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 use | conj |
| 37 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 rings | punct |
| 38 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 forms | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 chains | punct |
| 40 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 rings | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 axes | punct |
| 42 | axes | ax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 rings | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 knives | punct |
| 44 | knives | knife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 rings | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 cups | punct |
| 46 | cups | cup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 rings | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 tools | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 tools | cc |
| 49 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 tools | amod |
| 50 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 kept | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Smith | curious tools | spite of Iron's piteous cries | then | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in spite=Location | ||
| 2 | pound | gerund | Smith not said here | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | twist | gerund | Smith not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | turn | gerund | Smith not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | shape | gerund | Smith not said here | the helpless metal | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset metal=Product | ||||
| 6 | change | past · passive | metal | length | into many forms of use and beauty and rings and chains and axes and knives and cups result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into form=Result | |||
| 7 | spite | Iron's piteous cries | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | cry | Iron | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | form | use and beauty | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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