The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 53
“I cannot describe its shape,” she answered, “for it is still uncreated and therefore formless; but its composition is quite simple and its ingredients are of the commonest kind.
Who acts: Mistress, composition, ingredients · What happens: not describe, answer, uncreat, be · To what, where: shape, hundred · 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 (Mistress, composition, ingredients), 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 | _ | 5 describe | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 describe | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 describe | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 describe | advmod |
| 5 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 shape | nmod:poss |
| 7 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 describe | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 describe | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 describe | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 uncreated | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 uncreated | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 uncreated | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 uncreated | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 uncreated | aux:pass |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 uncreated | advmod |
| 18 | uncreated | uncreat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 answered | ccomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 formless | cc |
| 20 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 21 formless | advmod |
| 21 | formless | formless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 uncreated | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 simple | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 simple | cc |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 composition | nmod:poss |
| 25 | composition | composition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 simple | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 simple | cop |
| 27 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 28 simple | advmod |
| 28 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 answered | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 ingredients | cc |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 ingredients | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ingredients | ingredient | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 kind | nsubj |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 kind | cop |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 kind | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 kind | det |
| 35 | commonest | common | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 kind | amod |
| 36 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 simple | parataxis |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not describe in a quote | can | Mistress | hundred's shape | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent shape=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Mistress | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | uncreat in a quote | present · passive | hundred | still | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | hundred's composition | simple property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | hundred's ingredients | of the commonest kind | 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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