The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 35
Long did he seek, and far and wide did he travel, and many were the vain inquiries which he made; but nowhere in all the Frozen Land could he discover forge or chimney, bellows or tongs, anvil or hammer.
Who acts: Ilmarinen, many vain inquiries · What happens: seek, travel, be, make, discover · To what, where: many vain inquiries, forge, Frozen Land
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilmarinen, many vain inquiries), 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 seek | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seek | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seek | nsubj |
| 4 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 far | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 far | cc |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 seek | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wide | cc |
| 9 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 far | conj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 travel | aux |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 travel | nsubj |
| 12 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 far | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 inquiries | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 inquiries | cc |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 inquiries | amod |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 inquiries | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 inquiries | det |
| 18 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 inquiries | amod |
| 19 | inquiries | inquiry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seek | obl |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 made | nsubj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 made | nsubj |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 inquiries | acl:relcl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 discover | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 discover | cc |
| 25 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 33 discover | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 Land | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 Land | det:predet |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Land | det |
| 29 | Frozen | Frozen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Land | compound |
| 30 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 discover | obl |
| 31 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 discover | aux |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 discover | nsubj |
| 33 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 seek | conj |
| 34 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 discover | obj |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 chimney | cc |
| 36 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 forge | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 bellows | punct |
| 38 | bellows | bellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 forge | conj |
| 39 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 40 tongs | cc |
| 40 | tongs | tong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 forge | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 anvil | punct |
| 42 | anvil | anvil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 forge | conj |
| 43 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 44 hammer | cc |
| 44 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 forge | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seek | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past · do-support | Ilmarinen | far, long property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | travel | past · do-support | Ilmarinen | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the many vain inquiries | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make | past | the many vain inquiries | Ilmarinen nsubj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 5 | discover | could | Ilmarinen | forge or chimney and bellows or tongs and anvil or hammer | all Frozen Land | nowhere property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forge=Topic |
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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