The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 94
All these he cast into the tub of water wherein the Smith was vainly trying to temper Iron.
Who acts: these, Smith · What happens: cast, try · To what, where: tub, temper
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 (these, 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 these | det:predet |
| 2 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 cast | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cast | nsubj |
| 4 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 tub | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tub | det |
| 7 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cast | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tub | nmod |
| 10 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 trying | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Smith | det |
| 12 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 trying | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 trying | aux |
| 14 | vainly | vainly | ADV | _ | 15 trying | advmod |
| 15 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 cast | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 temper | mark |
| 17 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trying | xcomp |
| 18 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 trying | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast | past | these | the tub of water | Smith nsubj | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into tub=Product | |||
| 2 | try | past · progressive | the Smith | temper | Iron obl; vainly, wherein property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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