The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 48
I fashioned it into a dome-shaped lid to shut down over the earth and air.
What happens: shape, shut down · To what, where: 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: 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 fashioned | nsubj |
| 2 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fashioned | nsubj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 lid | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lid | det |
| 6 | dome | dome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shaped | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 dome | punct |
| 8 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 lid | amod |
| 9 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fashioned | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 shut | mark |
| 11 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 fashioned | advcl |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 shut | compound:prt |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 earth | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 earth | det |
| 15 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shut | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 air | cc |
| 17 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 earth | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fashioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shape | participle | dome compound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 2 | shut down | to-infinitive | the earth and air | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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