The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 34
For suddenly he had thought of the promise he had given her—“I will send you Ilmarinen, the skilfulest of smiths; he will forge the Sampo for you.”
Who acts: Mistress, promise · What happens: think, give, send, forge · To what, where: Mistress, Ilmarinen, you, Sampo · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tree of Magic. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mistress, promise), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 thought | mark |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 thought | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | aux |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 forge | advcl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 promise | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 promise | det |
| 8 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 given | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 given | aux |
| 11 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 promise | acl |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 given | obj |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 send | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 send | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 send | aux |
| 17 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 send | iobj |
| 19 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 send | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 skilfulest | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 skilfulest | det |
| 22 | skilfulest | skilful | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 send | parataxis |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 smiths | case |
| 24 | smiths | smith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 skilfulest | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 forge | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 forge | aux |
| 28 | forge | forge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Sampo | det |
| 30 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 forge | obj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 you | case |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 forge | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 forge | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 forge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · perfect | Mistress | of the promise; suddenly property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past · perfect · passive | the promise not said here | Mistress | shout obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Theme | |||
| 3 | send in a quote | future | Mistress | Ilmarinen | you | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination ilmarinen=Theme | |||
| 4 | forge in a quote | future | Mistress | the Sampo | for you | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sampo=Product for you=Beneficiary |
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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