The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 1

Never were two pledged lovers more stanch and true than the ancient Minstrel and the youthful Smith, and their affection for each other grew stronger and stronger as the days went by.

Who acts: two pledged lovers, affection, days · What happens: pledge, not be, be, grow, go by · To what, where: more stanch

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two pledged lovers, affection, days), 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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 stanch	advmod
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stanch	cop
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 lovers	nummod
4	pledged	pledge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 lovers	amod
5	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stanch	nsubj
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 stanch	amod
7	stanch	stanch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 true	cc
9	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stanch	conj
10	than	than	ADP	_	13 Minstrel	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Minstrel	det
12	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Minstrel	amod
13	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 true	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Smith	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Smith	det
16	youthful	youthful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Smith	amod
17	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Minstrel	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 grew	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 grew	cc
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 affection	nmod:poss
21	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grew	nsubj
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 each	case
23	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 affection	nmod
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 each	fixed
25	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stanch	conj
26	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 grew	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 stronger	cc
28	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 stronger	conj
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 went	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 days	det
31	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 went	nsubj
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 grew	advcl
33	by	by	ADP	_	32 went	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stanch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pledge	participle				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is a	past	two pledged lovers	more stanch		tree rules
3	be		two pledged lovers not said here		than the ancient Minstrel and the youthful Smith	tree rules
4	grow	past	lovers's affection for each		strong property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go by	past	the days			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Unfinished Boat, sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 1