The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 63
“To a smith who has shaped the mountains and hammered out the sky it will be an easy task, the pleasant pastime of a few fleeting days.
Who acts: sky · What happens: shape, hammer out, be · To what, where: easy task, sky
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 (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 | _ | 7 shaped | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 smith | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 smith | det |
| 4 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shaped | obl |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 shaped | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 shaped | aux |
| 7 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 task | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mountains | det |
| 9 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shaped | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hammered | cc |
| 11 | hammered | hammer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 shaped | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 hammered | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sky | det |
| 14 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hammered | obj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 task | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 task | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 task | cop |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 task | det |
| 19 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 task | amod |
| 20 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 pastime | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 pastime | det |
| 23 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 pastime | amod |
| 24 | pastime | pastime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 task | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 days | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 days | det |
| 27 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 days | amod |
| 28 | fleeting | fleeting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 days | amod |
| 29 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 pastime | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 task | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shape in a quote | present · perfect · passive | a easy task and the pleasant pastime of a few fleeting days | to a smith; the mountains obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary mountain=Product | ||||
| 2 | hammer out in a quote | participle | the sky | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sky=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | future | sky | a easy task and the pleasant pastime of a few fleeting days | the pleasant pastime of a few fleeting days conj | 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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