The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 58
“I have a recipe which has come down through the ages,” said the woman, “a recipe for making the Sampo; but no magician has ever yet been wise enough, strong enough to make use of it.
Who acts: woman, recipe, magician · What happens: have, come down, say, make, be, use · To what, where: recipe, ages, Sampo, use, magician · 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 (woman, recipe, magician), 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 | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 recipe | det |
| 5 | recipe | recipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 come | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | aux |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 recipe | acl:relcl |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 come | advmod |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 ages | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ages | det |
| 12 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 come | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 woman | det |
| 17 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 recipe | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 recipe | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 recipe | det |
| 21 | recipe | recipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 woman | appos |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 making | mark |
| 23 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 recipe | acl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Sampo | det |
| 25 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 making | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 has | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 has | cc |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 magician | det |
| 29 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 has | nsubj |
| 30 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | conj |
| 31 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 34 wise | advmod |
| 32 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 34 wise | advmod |
| 33 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 wise | cop |
| 34 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 has | xcomp |
| 35 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 34 wise | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 strong | punct |
| 37 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 wise | conj |
| 38 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 37 strong | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 make | mark |
| 40 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 strong | advcl |
| 41 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 make | obj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 it | case |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 use | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | the woman = woman | a recipe | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recipe=Patient | ||||
| 2 | come down in a quote | present · perfect | a recipe | through the ages | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through age=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | make in a quote | gerund | a recipe not said here | the Sampo | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sampo=Product | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | no magician | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | participle | no magician not said here | ever; yet | enough, wise property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | be in a quote | no magician not said here | enough property | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | no magician not said here | use of magician | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset use=Product | ||||
| 9 | use in a quote | magician | nom use «act transitive»: of=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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