The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 13
With Iron I labor, of Iron I sing; I heat it, I beat it, I make it ring, ring, I scold it, I mould it—my hammer I swing— Cling, cling, clinkety cling!
Who acts: I, Iron, hammer · What happens: labor, sing, heat, beat, make, ring · To what, where: Iron, Cling
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Iron, hammer), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 Iron | case |
| 2 | Iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 labor | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 labor | nsubj |
| 4 | labor | labor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sing | punct |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Iron | case |
| 7 | Iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sing | obl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 sing | nsubj |
| 9 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 labor | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 heat | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 heat | nsubj |
| 12 | heat | heat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 labor | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 heat | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 beat | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 beat | nsubj |
| 16 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 heat | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 beat | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 make | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 make | nsubj |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 labor | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 make | obj |
| 22 | ring | ring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 make | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ring | punct |
| 24 | ring | ring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 ring | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 scold | punct |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 scold | nsubj |
| 27 | scold | scold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 labor | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 scold | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 mould | punct |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 mould | nsubj |
| 31 | mould | mould | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 scold | obl |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 scold | obj |
| 33 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 swing | punct |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 hammer | nmod:poss |
| 35 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 swing | nsubj |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 swing | nsubj |
| 37 | swing | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 labor | conj |
| 38 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 Cling | punct |
| 39 | Cling | cling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 swing | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 cling | punct |
| 41 | cling | cling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Cling | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 cling | punct |
| 43 | clinkety | clinkety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 cling | compound |
| 44 | cling | cling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Cling | conj |
| 45 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 labor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | labor | present | I | with Iron | vn work-73.2 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with iron=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | present | I | of Iron | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 3 | heat | present | I | Iron | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | beat | present | I | Iron | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | present | I | Iron | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | ring | infinitive | Iron not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | ring | infinitive | Iron not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | scold | present | I | Iron | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | mould | I | tree rules | ||||||
| 10 | swing | present | my hammer | Cling and cling and clinkety cling | I nsubj | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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