The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 46
“Why, it was I that forged the blue sky that bends over the earth in summer.
Who acts: task, boaster, blue sky · What happens: be, forge, bend · To what, where: boaster, blue sky, earth
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 (task, boaster, blue sky), 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 | _ | 8 forged | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 I | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 I | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 I | cop |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 forged | nsubj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 forged | nsubj |
| 8 | forged | forge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sky | det |
| 10 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sky | amod |
| 11 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forged | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 bends | nsubj |
| 13 | bends | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sky | acl:relcl |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 earth | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 earth | det |
| 16 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bends | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 summer | case |
| 18 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bends | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 forged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | task | the boaster = boaster | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forge in a quote | past | the boaster = boaster | the blue sky | that nsubj | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sky=Product | |||
| 3 | bend in a quote | present | the blue sky | the earth | summer | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over earth=Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/9/46/