The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 69

And thus he promised, not once alone, but thrice, promised solemnly on his honor, that he with his magic power would forge the wondrous mill of fortune and shape its lid of rainbow colors.

Who acts: Ilmarinen, thrice · What happens: promise, forge, honor · To what, where: honor, wondrous mill

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 (Ilmarinen, thrice), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 promised	cc
2	thus	thus	ADV	_	4 promised	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 promised	nsubj
4	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 once	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 once	advmod
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 promised	advmod
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	7 once	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 promised	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 promised	cc
11	thrice	thrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 promised	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thrice	punct
13	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 promised	conj
14	solemnly	solemnly	ADV	_	13 promised	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 honor	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 honor	nmod:poss
17	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 promised	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 forge	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 forge	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 forge	nsubj
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 power	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 power	nmod:poss
23	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 power	amod
24	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 he	nmod
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 forge	aux
26	forge	forge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 promised	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mill	det
28	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 mill	amod
29	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 forge	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 fortune	case
31	fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mill	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 shape	cc
33	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mill	conj
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 lid	nmod:poss
35	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 forge	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 colors	case
37	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 colors	compound
38	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 lid	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	Ilmarinen			once, thus property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	promise speech: promise	past	thrice		Ilmarinen's honor	solemnly property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	forge	would	Ilmarinen	the wondrous mill of fortune and shape		power's lid of rainbow colors obj	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent mill=Beneficiary lid=Product
4	honor		Ilmarinen				nom honor «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 69