The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Opening, sentence 9

[A] It was made up of numerous stories, songs, folk-melodies, and incantations, with which were interwoven many independent episodes that are neither interesting nor necessary to its completeness.

Who acts: many independent episodes · What happens: make up, interweave, be · To what, where: TALE, many independent episodes

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many independent episodes), 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	_	6 made	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ]	det
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct
4	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux:pass
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 made	compound:prt
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 stories	case
9	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stories	amod
10	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 songs	punct
12	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stories	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 melodies	punct
14	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 melodies	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 folk	punct
16	melodies	melody	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 songs	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 incantations	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 incantations	cc
19	incantations	incantation	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 interwoven	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 which	case
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 interwoven	obl
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 interwoven	aux:pass
24	interwoven	interweave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 made	conj
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 episodes	amod
26	independent	independent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 episodes	amod
27	episodes	episode	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 interwoven	obj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 interesting	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 interesting	cop
30	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	31 interesting	cc:preconj
31	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 episodes	acl:relcl
32	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	33 necessary	cc
33	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 interesting	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 completeness	case
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 completeness	nmod:poss
36	completeness	completeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 interesting	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make up	past · passive		TALE	of numerous stories and songs and folk melodies; incantations obl	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot
2	interweave	past · passive		many independent episodes	which obl	vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: episode=Patient with which=Co-Patient
3	is	present	many independent episodes		to TALE's completeness; interesting property	tree rules
4	be		many independent episodes not said here			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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Opening, sentence 9

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Opening, sentence 9