The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 35
“The Sampo,” answered the Maid of Beauty—and her voice was like the ripple of wavelets on the shore of the summer sea—“the Sampo is the mill of fortune—the magic grinder that will grind whatever its owner most desires: money, houses, ships, silver, flour, salt—everything!”
Who acts: Sampo, voice, magic grinder · What happens: answer, be, grind · To what, where: Maid, mill, whatever · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Recipe. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sampo, voice, magic grinder), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sampo | det |
| 3 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sampo | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sampo | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Maid | det |
| 8 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Beauty | case |
| 10 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Maid | nmod |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 ripple | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ripple | cc |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 voice | nmod:poss |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ripple | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 ripple | cop |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 ripple | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ripple | det |
| 18 | ripple | ripple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 wavelets | case |
| 20 | wavelets | wavelet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 ripple | nmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 shore | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 shore | det |
| 23 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wavelets | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 sea | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sea | det |
| 26 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sea | compound |
| 27 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shore | nmod |
| 28 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 mill | punct |
| 29 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 mill | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Sampo | det |
| 31 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 mill | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 mill | cop |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 mill | det |
| 34 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ripple | appos |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 fortune | case |
| 36 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 mill | nmod |
| 37 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 grinder | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 grinder | det |
| 39 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 grinder | amod |
| 40 | grinder | grinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 mill | appos |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 grind | nsubj |
| 42 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 grind | aux |
| 43 | grind | grind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 grinder | acl:relcl |
| 44 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 grind | obj |
| 45 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 owner | nmod:poss |
| 46 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 grind | obj |
| 47 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 48 desires | amod |
| 48 | desires | desire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 grind | obj |
| 49 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 50 money | punct |
| 50 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 desires | conj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 houses | punct |
| 52 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 money | conj |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 ships | punct |
| 54 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 money | conj |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 silver | punct |
| 56 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 money | conj |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 flour | punct |
| 58 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 money | conj |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 salt | punct |
| 60 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 money | conj |
| 61 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 62 everything | punct |
| 62 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 40 grinder | conj |
| 63 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 40 grinder | punct |
| 64 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 mill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: express | past | the Sampo | the Maid of Beauty | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent maid=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Beauty's voice | like the ripple; of wavelets on the shore of the summer sea | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the Sampo | the mill | of fortune; the magic grinder everything appos | tree rules | |||
| 4 | grind in a quote | future | the magic grinder everything | whatever | Sampo's owner obj; most desires and money and houses and ships and silver and flour and salt obj | tree rules |
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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